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The Deliberate Effort to Make Things Different Within a System

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The deliberate effort to make things different within a system is called:


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Castration Anxiety

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a child's fear of losing their genitalia, believed to play a role in the development of certain complexes and behaviors.

Behaviourism

A psychological approach to understanding abnormal behaviour devised by John B. Watson (1858–1935), which declared that psychology must be restricted to the study of observable features, that is, the behaviour of organisms. Watson considered abnormal functioning to be learned and so believed it could be unlearned. His model for learning was derived from Ivan Pavlov’s (1849–1936) studies of classical conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.

Watson

John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.

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