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I am looking for some information regarding how the different psychological theories (behavioral, cogntive, developmental, humanistic, personality, and social) will influence the future.

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Behavioral theory: During the 1980's, behavioral analyst Sigrid Glenn had discussed interdisciplinary work in cultural analysis and behavioral theory with cultural anthropologist Marvin Harris. Recently, behavior analysts have produced a set of basic experiments in this. More extensive experiments are expected to be undertaken in the future as the field of psychology continues to evolve.

Cognitive theory: It is a learning theory that attempts to explain human behavior by understanding the thought processes. A trend in past decades has been to merge cognitive theory and behaviorism into the ...

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