Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

  • 500 BCE

    the greeks

    set the frame for psychology by analyzing human behavior
  • 1500

    the renaissance

    Refired approach of experimental through observation
  • cognitive

    the scientific study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking"
  • attacking dualism

    the mind is what controlled the body and together they formed ore's expeirence
  • psychoanalytical

    personality organization and the dynamics of personality development
  • behavioral

    understanding the behavior of humans and other animals
  • biological

    application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and other animals.
  • evolutionary

    theoretical approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective
  • structuralism

    used a method of self observation called introspection to gather information about the mind
  • functionalism

    the goal of the mind was to adapt and survive
  • Inheritable traits

    if behavior is determined by heredity or enviroment
  • humanistic

    human nature as evolving and self directed