Historical Perspectives in Psychology Project

By Madison.Munoz
  • 500 BCE

    The Greeks

    The Greeks
    Used self observation to gather information about the mind. The founder was William James
  • 78 BCE

    Attacking Dualism

    Attacking Dualism
    The general idea is that for some particular domain there are two fundamental kinds of categories of things or principles.
  • 19 BCE

    Structuralism

    Structuralism
    used self observation to gather information about the mind
  • 19 BCE

    Functionalism

    Functionalism
    considers mental life and behavior in terms of active adaptions to the persons environment
  • 14 BCE

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    approach of experimentation through observation (galileo)

  • psychoanalytical

    psychoanalytical
    Actions/ product of our unconscious desires

  • Inheritable traits

    Inheritable traits
    Heredity is more important than environment

  • Biological

    Biological
    Psychological process are results of anatomy of the brain

  • Humanistic

    Humanistic
    focuses on the positive regarding feelings, love and self acceptance

  • Cognitive

    Cognitive
    Perceptions, thoughts. memories all impact our experiences

  • Evolutionary

    Evolutionary
    Psychology that attempts to explain useful, mental and psychological attempts like memory or language as adaptions.

  • Behavioral

    Behavioral
    focuses on the study and alteration of peoples behaviors inducing their actions, emotions and thoughts

  • Social-Cultural

    Social-Cultural
    Consists of the believes behaviors, object and other characteristic common to members of a particular group or society this culture teach producers organizations