Historical perspectives in psychology project

By Jay214
  • 1700 BCE

    Attacking Dualism

    Rene Descartes disagrees with dualistic approaches that mind anybody are separate
  • 1600 BCE

    The Renaissance by

    The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
  • 700 BCE

    The Greeks by Aristotle's

    The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote an influential treatise on the psyche, called in Greek.
  • structuralism by Wilhelm Wundt

    used self-observation o gather info about the mind.
  • Biological by Charles Darwin

    The biological perspective is a way of looking at psychological issues by studying the physical basis for animal and human behavior.
  • functionalism by William James

    William James wrote"The principal of psychology.
  • psychoanalytical by Sigmund Freud.

    Focus on the importance of the unconscious mind.
  • Cognitive by Neisser

    Cognitive psychology, Branch of psychology devoted to the study of human cognition, particularly as it affects learning and behaviour.
  • humanistic by Maslow, rodgers.

    environment is most important in development.
  • Evolutionary by Charles Darwin

    Evolutionary psychology, the study of behavior, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology.
  • Inheritable Traits by Gregor Mendel

    Heredity is a term that refers to traits and features that are inherited from one's parents and ancestors. At birth a person inherits 50% of each parent's genetic material (genes) that are passed along through the chromosomes found in the DNA .
  • behavioral by Watson , B.F skinner

    Humans behavior can be learned, conditioned, refined.
  • Social-Cultural by kurt lewin

    Sociocultural Perspective is a theory used in fields such as psychology and is used to describe awareness of circumstances surrounding individuals