mentalism

noun

men·​tal·​ism ˈmentᵊlˌizəm 

plural -s

1

a

: a doctrine that mind is the fundamental reality : berkeleianism compare idealism, materialism

b

: a doctrine that distinguishes mental processes fundamentally from the accompanying brain activity

2

: a view that conscious processes as revealed by introspection are the proper data of psychology

—opposed to behaviorism

3

: a hypothesis that special factors of mind must be assumed to analyze, classify, or explain some or all phenomena of language compare mechanism

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