APA Dictionary of Psychology

centralist psychology

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. a psychological approach that focuses on behavior as a function of the higher brain centers, as opposed to peripheralist psychology (see peripheralism), which focuses on the effects of the receptors, glands, and muscles on behavior. Centralist psychology is essentially equivalent to centralism.
  2. more generally, the idea that mental activity or mind occurs in or is a function of the brain alone.

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