Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

  • 5 BCE

    The Greeks

    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