Approaches to Psychology

  • Structuralism

    Structuralism

    Study of Psychology through the analyzation of basic behaviors and thought process.
  • Inheriatble Traits

    Inheriatble Traits

    Stduy of Psychology using tools to differentiate traits transmitted through genetics and others that are not.
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    Study of Psychology through the way people and animals adapt to their environment.
  • Gestalt

    Gestalt

    German Psycologist including Max wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler and Kurt Koffa disagreed with the idea that perception is a sum of parts, rather they belived it is a whole patern. For example, when we look at a chair we see a chair. Not the legs, cushion, and back of the seat.
  • psychoanalysis

    psychoanalysis

    A set of psychological theroies and associated techniques that have to do with analyzing thoughts.
  • Behaviorism

    Behaviorism

    The idea and branch of psychological approaches that any behavior can be taught through ways of manipulating the brain.
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    Study of how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influnence our behavior.
  • Humanistic Psychology

    Humanistic Psychology

    Belief that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth.
  • Psychobiology

    Psychobiology

    Study of physical and chemical changes in the body and how it affects our brains.
  • Socioculture

    Socioculture

    Study of cultural influnces