Psychological Perspectives Project

  • The Greeks
    500 BCE

    The Greeks

    The Greek philosophers set the frame for psychology.
  • Renaissance

    Renaissance

    Refined approach of experimentation through observation (Coperricus Galileo)
  • Attacking Dualism

    Attacking Dualism

    Rene Descartes disagreed with dualistic approach that mind and body are separate
  • Evolutionary

    Evolutionary

    (Charles Darwin) Natural Selection; "survival of the fitness"
  • Structualism

    Structualism

    Wihelm Wundt
  • Psychoanalytical

    Psychoanalytical

    (Alfred Adler) we are products of our nonconscious desires of sex and anger
  • Biological

    Biological

    (Rian Hall) structure of the brain.
  • Behavioral

    Behavioral

    (John B. Watson) product of experiences
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits

    Sir Francis Galton began the first psychological evaluation of heredity.
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    William James wrote "The Principles of Pschology"
  • Social-Cutural

    Social-Cutural

    (Albert Bandura) prensence of others
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    (Gustav Fechner) behavior is an result of thinking
  • Humanistic

    Humanistic

    (Abraham Maslow) focuses on positive regard, feeling, love, self-acceptance