Historical Perspective in Psychology Project

By Adamaris05
  • 17 BCE

    Attacking Dualism

    Attacking Dualism
    Rene Descartes
    disagrees with dualism argue that the mind controls the body
  • 14 BCE

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    Gallileo
    experimentation of observation
  • 5 BCE

    The Greeks

    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