Psychoanalysis, Gestalt psychology, and structural psychology:
A) share a view of essential mental passivity.
B) share a view of essential mental activity.
C) all accept some form of empiricism.
D) share a reliance on conscious determinants of mental activity.
E) all accept belief in inherited, innate ideas.

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Psychoanalysis, Gestalt psychology, and structural psychology all emphasize the active nature of mental processes. Psychoanalysis focuses on the active role of the unconscious mind, Gestalt psychology on how the mind actively organizes perceptions into coherent wholes, and structural psychology on the active introspection to understand the structure of the mind.

Psychoanalysis, Gestalt Psychology, and Structural Psychology