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Rene Descartes
He had a theory where that the human mind and body are seperated but ineract through the brain. -
Hermann von Helmholtz
He found a method for measuring the speed of nerve impulses in a frog's leg which then it applied to humans. The method he used for testing humans was applying stimulus into different parts of the body. With the results he found the differences between the reaction times to find how long it took for a nerve impulse to travel to the brain. -
Sigmund Freud
He developed a new approach to pyschology called psychoanalysis. It focuses on the roles of unconscious explaining behaviour and mental processes. -
John Broadus Watson
Watson's perspective and approach was known as behaviourism. He did not support on consciousness and unconsciousness but proposed that psychology should be study of observable behaviour.Behaviourism involves understanding and explaining how behabiour is learned and shaped by experience. Watson conducted research on animals to observe their behaviour. -
Wilhelm Wundt
A German physiologist, Wilhelm Wundt focused on the structuralism of the comsciousness. He had a labortory at the University of Leipzig where he conducted experiments on the consciousness. With all the experiments he conducted it demostrated that attention, sensations, perceptions and feelings can be studied. -
William James
He pulished a two volume book called Principles of Psychology where man ideas were presented. For example, consciousness, the relaitonship between conscious experience and the body, individual differenes in people, sensation, perception, memory and emotion. He had a different approach to then Wundt called functionalism, where it focused on the functions or purpose that mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their enviroment. -
Carl Rogers
American clinical psychologist Carl Rogers was the founder and leaders of humanism. Humanism is an approach to understanding and explaining behaviour and mental processes on the positive qualities and potentials of human beings to fulfil their lives. It was assumed that everyone was born good and strived to reach their full potential. -
Greek Philosphers
Plato and Aristotle wrote about human thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and human nature in general. For example, memory, sleep, dreams, the senses, pleasure and pain and imagination.
