Psychological Perspectives Project

  • 500 BCE

    The Greeks

    The Greeks
    The Greek philosophers set the frame for psychology.
  • Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Refined approach of experimentation through observation (Coperricus Galileo)
  • Attacking Dualism

    Attacking Dualism
    Rene Descartes disagreed with dualistic approach that mind and body are separate
  • Evolutionary

    Evolutionary
    (Charles Darwin) Natural Selection; "survival of the fitness"
  • Structualism

    Structualism
    Wihelm Wundt
  • Psychoanalytical

    Psychoanalytical
    (Alfred Adler) we are products of our nonconscious desires of sex and anger
  • Biological

    Biological
    (Rian Hall) structure of the brain.
  • Behavioral

    Behavioral
    (John B. Watson) product of experiences
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits
    Sir Francis Galton began the first psychological evaluation of heredity.
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism
    William James wrote "The Principles of Pschology"
  • Social-Cutural

    Social-Cutural
    (Albert Bandura) prensence of others
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive
    (Gustav Fechner) behavior is an result of thinking
  • Humanistic

    Humanistic
    (Abraham Maslow) focuses on positive regard, feeling, love, self-acceptance