Perspectives in psychology project

The greeks

347 BCE

Founder: Plato
Provided useful insights to the structure of the human mind.He used the idea of the word psyche to descirbe the mind and the soul to developing the human behavior, impulses, and reasonings.

The Renaissance

1353

Founder: Petrarch
Experimentation through observation ("father of humanism")

Attacking dualism

1641

Founder: Rene Descartes
Belief that there is two kinds of reality, disagreed w/ dulaism (mind controls body)

structuralism

1879

Founder: Wihelm wundt
Self observation to gather info about the mind

Psychoanalytical

1890

Founder: Sigmund Freud
Product of our internal desire's

Biological

1890

Founder: William James
MInd-body connection is explored through scientific research and clinical practice.

Social- Cultural

1898

Founder: Kurt Lewin
Describe awareness of circumstances surrounding individulas and their behaviors are affected around them.

Functionalism

1900

Founder: William James
Function of mind purposes of behavior

Inheritable Traits

1900

Founder: Francis Galton
Traits and features that are inherited from ones parents and ancestors.

Behavioral

1913

Founder: B.F. Skinner
Humans behavior can be learned, conditioned, and refined.

Cognitive

1960

Founder: Neisser
Mental processes (perception, thinking, learning, and memory)

Humanistic

1961

Founder: Maslow & Rodgers
Environment is most important in development.

Evolutionary

1983

Founder: Niko Tinbergen
Study of behavior, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology.