Psychology

Roots of Psychology

  • Biological

    Harlow-1848 "Phineas Gage's brain injury case study provides neuroscience with significant information regarding the working of the brain." Soruce
  • Psychology Lab Developed

    Willhelm Wundt, a german doctor who established the first Psychogy lab. <a href='http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/f/first-psychology-lab.htm' >Soruce</a
  • Structuralism

    Wilhem Wundt created this study in his first psychological lab. This is the study of mind using intropestion or stream of conciousness and using the scientific method. Soruce
  • Functionalism

    Willhelm Wundt publishes first book in 1890, it was one of the greatest works in psychology and is still fresh and informative today. Soruce
  • Behaviorism

    Watson lauches behaviorist school of psychology in 1913. Behaviorism - Concentrate on the objective mesaurment of observable behavior and believed behavior was determnied by stimuli in the enviorment. Soruce
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis was created by Sigmund Freud.
  • Sociocultural

    Created by Lev Vygotsky (1931-1937)
    " The work of sociocultural theory is to explain how individual mental functioning is related to cultural, institutional, and historical context " Soruce
  • Gestalt Method

    Tought by Max Wertheimer who moved to the U.S. in 1933. then the year after started teaching Gestalt at the new school for social reasearch in New York. Soruce
  • Cognitive

    This began to emerge in the 1950's. Cognitive is the study of how people think, take in information, process, store, and retrieve information. Soruce
  • Humanistic

    Humanistic Psychology was focused on helping people get to ther full potential, Abraham Maslow was the major thinker in this approach. Soruce