Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

By daetrin
  • 1821 BCE

    the greeks

    the dark ages to the end of antiquity
  • 1641 BCE

    attacking dualism

    In general, the idea is that, for some particular domain, there are two fundamental kinds or categories of things or principles. In theology, for example a ‘dualist’ is someone who believes that Good and Evil—or God and the Devil
  • 1547

    evolutionary

    survial of the fitest
  • the renaissance

    was a fervent period of european cultural artistic and economic rebirth following the middle ages.
  • structuralism

    Structuralism began in linguistics and spread to anthropology, philosophy, literary criticism, and other fields.
  • behavioral

    product of expercines
  • psychoanalytcal

    movement originated in the clinical observations and formulations of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, who coined the term psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalytcal

    movement originated in the clinical observations and formulations of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, who coined the term psychoanalysis.
  • biological

    continually been involved in studying the physical basis for the reception of internal and external stimuli by the nervous system
  • functionalism

    social structure or the organisation of society as more important than the individual
  • inheritable traits

    thought that focuses on humans and their values, capacities, and worth. b. Humanism A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized human potential
  • social cultural

    past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. (pregame of others
  • cognitive

    became of great importance in the mid-1950s. Several factors were important in this: Disatisfaction with the behaviorist approach in its simple emphasis on external behavior rather than internal processes.