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Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

  • 2200 BCE

    The greek

    The greek
    Greek philosophers set the frame for psychology by discovering that human behavior was controlled more by our minds than gods
  • The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    refined approach of experimentation through observation calibo and copernicus
  • attacking dualism

    attacking dualism
    The relationship between mind and matter.Rene Descartes
  • evolutionary

    evolutionary
    natural selection and survival of the fittest determines who lives and who doesn´t-Charles Darwin
  • inheritable traits

    inheritable traits
    fancis galton- his writings questioned its behavior is determined by heredity or environment. claimed the genius traits ranin families
  • structuralism

    structuralism
    Wilhelm Wundt- credited for making psychology its own format study
  • biological

    biological
    Based on the structure of the brain-william james
  • functionalism

    functionalism
    William James- he published ¨The Principles Of Psychology¨
  • psychoanalytical

    psychoanalytical
    Our non conscious desires of sex and desire-by sigmund frued
  • behavioral

    Our happiness and personality is based on our experiences-John Watson
  • social-cultural

    social-cultural
    The feelings based on those around us-Vygotsky
  • cognitive

    cognitive
    It focuses on our behavior as a whole and why we act the way we do- by Dick Nesser
  • humanistic

    humanistic
    Focus on the positive and optimistic point of view-by Abraham