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Different Approaches to Psychology

  • Structuralism

    Structuralism

    Wilhelm Wundt: is the study of basic elements that make up consious mental experiences
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits

    Sir Francis Galton; Distinguishing characteristics passed down through generations
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    William James studied how animals and people adapt to their environments.
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis

    Sigmund Freud; set of psychological theories and associated technology
  • Behaviorism

    Ivan Pavlov; analyze how organisms learn or modify behaviour based on their response to events
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, and Leon Festinger.;focus on how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how this information influences thinking, language, problem solving, and creativity
  • Humanistic Psychology

    Humanistic Psychology

    Abraham Malow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May; psychologist who beleive that each person chooses their own destiny. Nature not nurture
  • Gestalt

    Gestalt

    German psychologists, including Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka argued that perception is more than the sum of its parts—it involves a “whole pattern” or, in German, a Gestalt
  • Psychobiology

    Psychobiology

    Neurologists; study of physical and chemical changes in our bodies that influence behavior
  • Sociocultural

    Sociocultural

    Lev Vygostky; study of the influence of culture and ethic similarities and differences. EX: morals and lifestyle