Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

  • The Greeks
    5 BCE

    The Greeks

    Founder ~ Aristotle
    Greek Philosopher analyzed human behavior.
  • The Renaissance

    The Renaissance

    Founder ~ Galileo
    Experimentation to observation
  • Attacking Dualism

    Attacking Dualism

    Founder ~ Rene Descartes
    Disagreed with Dualism, he argued that mind controls the body
  • Biological

    Biological

    Founder ~ Roger Sperry, Michael Gazzaniga
    Psychological processes are result of anatomy from brain
  • Psychoanalytical

    Psychoanalytical

    Founder ~ Sigmund Fraud
    Non-counsious, Preconcious, concious
  • Evolutionary

    Evolutionary

    Founder ~ Charles Darwin,William Fames
    Survival of the fittest, ability to survive and reproduce
  • Structuralism

    Structuralism

    Founder ~ Wilhem Wundt
    Self observation to gather information about the mind
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    Founder ~ William James
    Focused on the mind and functions of behavior
  • Behavioral

    Behavioral

    Founder ~ B.F.Skinner,Ivan Pavlov
    Based of behavior and experiences
  • Inheritable traits

    Inheritable traits

    Founder ~ Gregor Mendel
    Deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one form each parent. He tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits
  • Social-Cultural

    Social-Cultural

    Founder ~ Albert Bandura,Stanley Milgram, Philip Z
    Impacted by presence of others
  • Humanistic

    Humanistic

    Founder ~ Abraham Maslow , Carl Rogers
    Being positive, Self acceptance, Love, Good
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    Founder ~ Gustav Fechner, Leon Festinger
    Behavior is affected by mental processes or by the way we think