Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

  • The Greeks
    500 BCE

    The Greeks

    Used self observation to gather information about the mind. The founder was William James
  • Attacking Dualism
    78 BCE

    Attacking Dualism

    The general idea is that for some particular domain there are two fundamental kinds of categories of things or principles.
  • Structuralism
    19 BCE

    Structuralism

    used self observation to gather information about the mind
  • Functionalism
    19 BCE

    Functionalism

    considers mental life and behavior in terms of active adaptions to the persons environment
  • The Renaissance
    14 BCE

    The Renaissance

    approach of experimentation through observation (galileo)
  • psychoanalytical

    psychoanalytical

    Actions/ product of our unconscious desires
  • Inheritable traits

    Inheritable traits

    Heredity is more important than environment
  • Biological

    Biological

    Psychological process are results of anatomy of the brain
  • Humanistic

    Humanistic

    focuses on the positive regarding feelings, love and self acceptance
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    Perceptions, thoughts. memories all impact our experiences
  • Evolutionary

    Evolutionary

    Psychology that attempts to explain useful, mental and psychological attempts like memory or language as adaptions.
  • Behavioral

    Behavioral

    focuses on the study and alteration of peoples behaviors inducing their actions, emotions and thoughts
  • Social-Cultural

    Social-Cultural

    Consists of the believes behaviors, object and other characteristic common to members of a particular group or society this culture teach producers organizations