Psychology

  • Structuralism

    Structuralism

    Study of the elements of human culture and elements of human experience.
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits

    Process of passing traits from parents to offspring. Sir Francis Galton wanted to understand how these traits influenced character and behavior.
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    Study of how animal and people adapt to the environment.
  • Gestalt

    Gestalt

    Argued against structuralism and behaviorism and stated perception is more than the sum of its parts. ex. A chair is a chair and not wood and cusions.
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis

    A pschyoanalyst was to be objective and listen to peoples' thought process. Dream analysis is an example.
  • Behaviorism

    Behaviorism

    How organisms learn/modify their behavior as response to events in the environment.
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    How we store, use and retrieve information and how it influences orur thinking, langauge, problem solving and creativity.
  • Humanistic pyschology

    Humanistic pyschology

    Belief that each person has freedom in directing their own personal growth.
  • Psychobiology

    Psychobiology

    Studies how physcial and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior.
  • Sociocultural

    Sociocultural

    Study how our cultures effect our feelings, behavior and thoughts.