Perspectives in psychology project

  • 347 BCE

    The greeks

    The greeks
    Founder: Plato
    Provided useful insights to the structure of the human mind.He used the idea of the word psyche to descirbe the mind and the soul to developing the human behavior, impulses, and reasonings.
  • 1353

    The Renaissance

    Founder: Petrarch
    Experimentation through observation ("father of humanism")
  • Attacking dualism

    Founder: Rene Descartes
    Belief that there is two kinds of reality, disagreed w/ dulaism (mind controls body)
  • structuralism

    Founder: Wihelm wundt
    Self observation to gather info about the mind
  • Psychoanalytical

    Founder: Sigmund Freud
    Product of our internal desire's
  • Biological

    Founder: William James
    MInd-body connection is explored through scientific research and clinical practice.
  • Social- Cultural

    Founder: Kurt Lewin
    Describe awareness of circumstances surrounding individulas and their behaviors are affected around them.
  • Functionalism

    Founder: William James
    Function of mind purposes of behavior
  • Inheritable Traits

    Founder: Francis Galton
    Traits and features that are inherited from ones parents and ancestors.
  • Behavioral

    Founder: B.F. Skinner
    Humans behavior can be learned, conditioned, and refined.
  • Cognitive

    Founder: Neisser
    Mental processes (perception, thinking, learning, and memory)
  • Humanistic

    Founder: Maslow & Rodgers
    Environment is most important in development.
  • Evolutionary

    Founder: Niko Tinbergen
    Study of behavior, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology.