Historical Perspective in Psychology Project

  • Attacking Dualism
    17 BCE

    Attacking Dualism

    Rene Descartes
    disagrees with dualism argue that the mind controls the body
  • The Renaissance
    14 BCE

    The Renaissance

    Gallileo
    experimentation of observation
  • The Greeks
    5 BCE

    The Greeks

    Analyze human behavior
  • Structuralism

    Structuralism

    William Wundt
    use self observation to gather info about the mind
  • Psychoanalytical

    Psychoanalytical

    Sigmund Freud,
    Actions/Products of our unconscious desires
  • Behavioral

    Behavioral

    B.F Skinner and Ivan Pavlov,
    Focuses on the study & alterations of people including their actions, emotions, and thoughts
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits

    Gregor Mendel
    a feature or characteristic of an organism that has been passed on to it in its genes.
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    William James,
    mind has to adapt to survive
  • Social Culture

    Social Culture

    Allbert Bandura,
    impacted by presence of others
  • Biological

    Biological

    Michael Gazzaniga,
    Results of the anatomy of the brain
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    Gustav fechner,
    behavior is affected by mental processes
  • Humanistic

    Humanistic

    Abraham Maslow,
    Focuses on positive regarding feelings, love, self acceptance.
  • Evolutionary

    Evolutionary

    Charles Darwin,
    use mental, like memory as adaptions