Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

  • 146 BCE

    The greeks

    The greeks
    Greeks were poor and life was hard, because farmland, water and timber for building were not always available.
  • 1300

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    Founder: Masaccio The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic rebirth following the Middle Ages.
  • Attacking Dualism

    Attacking Dualism
    which holds that the mind is a nonphysical and therefore, non spatial substance. Descartes clearly identified the mind with consciousness and self-awareness and distinguished this from the brain as the seat of intelligence.
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism
    Founder: Edward B. Titchener Functionalism is the perspective in sociology according to which society consists of different but related parts, each of which serves a particular purpose.
  • Psychoanalytical

    Psychoanalytical
    Founded: Sigmund Freud The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences.
  • Biological

    Biological
    Founder: Micheal Gazzaniga Psychological process of the anatomy of the brain
  • Structuralism

    Structuralism
    Founder: Wilhelm Wundt structuralism challenged the belief that a work of literature reflected a given reality instead, a text was constituted of linguistic conventions and situated among other texts.
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits
    Founder: Gregor Mendel An inherited trait is a feature or characteristic of an organism that has been passed on to it in its genes.
  • Behavioral

    Behavioral
    Founder: B. F. Skinner Behavioral psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on the study and alteration of people's behaviors, including their actions, emotions and thoughts.
  • Humanistic

    Humanistic
    Founder: Carl Rogers Humanistic philosophy and values reflect a belief in human dignity and science but not religion.
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive
    Founder: Gustav Fetcher Our behavior is affected by our mental processes
  • Evolutionary

    Evolutionary
    Founder: Charles Darwin Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits such as memory, perception, or language as adaptations.
  • Social-Cultural

    Social-Cultural
    Founder: Albert Bandua Consists of the behaviors, and belifes