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Structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt: is the study of basic elements that make up consious mental experiences -
Inheritable Traits
Sir Francis Galton; Distinguishing characteristics passed down through generations -
Functionalism
William James studied how animals and people adapt to their environments. -
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud; set of psychological theories and associated technology -
Behaviorism
Ivan Pavlov; analyze how organisms learn or modify behaviour based on their response to events -
Cognitive
Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, and Leon Festinger.;focus on how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how this information influences thinking, language, problem solving, and creativity -
Humanistic Psychology
Abraham Malow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May; psychologist who beleive that each person chooses their own destiny. Nature not nurture -
Gestalt
German psychologists, including Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka argued that perception is more than the sum of its parts—it involves a “whole pattern” or, in German, a Gestalt -
Psychobiology
Neurologists; study of physical and chemical changes in our bodies that influence behavior -
Sociocultural
Lev Vygostky; study of the influence of culture and ethic similarities and differences. EX: morals and lifestyle
