Which of the 'thoughts of school' in Psychology is also called as 'Black box theory' ?

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Which of the 'thoughts of school' in Psychology is also called as 'Black box theory' ?

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Behaviourism
Structuralism
Functionalism
Gestaltism

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Black Box Theory is where the mind could be fully understood once the inputs and outputs are well described without knowledge of the inner workings of the system or how the output is obtained from the input. This theory is applied to any field, like philosophy, psychology, science, or in other ways where the relations between the event come into sight.

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Behaviourism	Behaviorism is the belief that mental states can be explained by reference to the objective and observable components of behavior. Behaviorism is more concerned with behavior, what can be directly seen, like the law-like relationship between stimuli and responses. To behaviorists, the human mind is unobservable and can never be measured. In Behaviorism, the mind could be assumed and treated as the Black Box, whose inner workings of the system are impossible to know because there is no access to it. This view can be called the black box theory of mind.
Structuralism	Structuralism is a mode of knowledge of nature and human life that is interested in relationships rather than individual objects or, alternatively, where objects are defined by the set of relationships of which they are part and not by the qualities possessed by them taken in isolation. Structuralism sought to analyze the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.
Functionalism	Functionalism is a theory about the nature of mental states. According to functionalists, mental states are identified by what they do rather than by what they are made of. Structuralism was the first school of psychology and focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. Researchers tried to understand the basic elements of consciousness using a method known as introspection.
Gestaltism	Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. That is, the attributes of the whole are not deducible from the analysis of the parts in isolation. The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been “placed,” or “put together.”

Thus, 'thoughts of school' in Psychology is also called 'Black box theory' in the school of Behaviourism as it sees the mind as a black box and is concerned with behavior as a response to stimuli.

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