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Structuralism
A psychologists that studies the basic elements that make up the conscious mental experiments -
Inheritable Traits
A psychologist who studies how heredity, or biological traits parents to children, influences abilities, character, and behavior. -
Functionalism
A psychologist that studied how animals and people adapt to their enviroments. -
Gestalt
A psychologist who studies that perception is more than the sum of it's parts- it involves a "whole pattern." -
Psychoanalysis
A set of pychological theories and therapy that aims to associate and treat mental disorders. -
Behaviorism
Analysis how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on thier response to an enviroment -
Cognative
Psychologists who focus on how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how this infromation influences thinking, language, problem solving, and creativity. -
Humanistic Psychology
The approach does not view humans as being controlled by events in the environment or by unconscious forces. Instead, the environment and other outside forces serve as a background to internal growth. -
Psychobiology
Psychologist who study how the brain, the nervous system, hormones, and gentic factors influence our behavior. -
Socioculture
A pychologist who studies the influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences in behavior and social functioning.
