Compare the Importance That Behaviorist and Gestalt Approaches Attach to Such

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Essay

Compare the importance that behaviorist and Gestalt approaches attach to such "mentalistic" concepts as thoughts and feelings. To which of these schools of thought is contemporary social psychology more closely related and why?

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