The History of Psychology

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    Years of Psychology

  • Structuralism

    Structuralism

    The theory that elements of human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits

    The passing of phenotypic traits from parents to their offspring.
  • Fucntionalism

    Fucntionalism

    The theory about the nature of mental states.
  • Gestalt

    Gestalt

    The study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual's response to configurational wholes with stress on the uniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis

    Psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    The study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking.
  • Humanistic Psychology

    Humanistic Psychology

    A psychological perspective that emphasizes thestudy of the whole person
  • Behaviorism

    Behaviorism

    The theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
  • Psychobiology

    Psychobiology

    The branch of science that deals with the biological basis of behavior and mental phenomena.
  • Sociocultural

    Sociocultural

    The combining social and cultural factors.