Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Psychology

By KayZJay
  • Dualism

    Dualism
    Dualism, the concept of that the mind and body are separate, had been distributed, but Rene Descartes disagreed with the proposal that there is a link between mind and body.
  • Phrenology

    Phrenology
    Phrenology becomes popular when Marmaduke B. Sampson explains why crime occurs. He believed that it was directly associated to the shape of one's head. While it may seem ridiculous to us and has since been disproven, modern scientists credit phrenology for encouraging the study into the role of the brain in human behavior.
  • Psychology Being Taught

    The first class on psychology was taught at Harvard by William James.
  • Introspection

    Introspection
    Structuralist Wilhelm Wundt started his Laboratory of Psychology and developed the method of introspection. His description of this was to look ainward and examine one's own thoughts, feelings, and motives.
  • Heredity or Environment?

    Heredity or Environment?
    Sir Francis Galton's "Inquiries into Human Faculty and It's Development" raises the issue of whether behavior is determined by heredity or environment.
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis
    Sigmund Freud introduces psychoanalytic psychology.
  • Behaviorists and Reinforcement

    John B. Watson introduces the position of behaviorists and B. F. Skinner introduces the concept of reinforcement.
    https://youtu.be/KYDYzR-ZWRQ
  • Human Nature

    Human Nature
    Humanists, people that attach prime importance to humans rather than divine or supernatural matters, describe human nature as evolving and self-directed.