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Functionalism
Psychologist: William James
How animals and people adapt to their environments. -
Structuralism
Psychologist: Wilhelm Wundt
Internal thought process. -
Inheritable Traits
Pyschologist: Sir Francis Galton
Understanding how heredity, or biological traits passed from parents to children, influences abilities, character, and behabior. -
Behaviorism
Psychologist: John B Watson
Analyzes how organisms learn to motify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment. -
Psychoanalysis
Psychologist: Sigmund Freud
Study of consious and unconsioud motivations behind human behavior. -
Cognitive
Psychologists: Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, and Leon Festinger
How we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how this information influences thinking, language, problem solving, and creativity. -
Humanistic Psychology
Psychologists: Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May.
Each person has a unique individual identity and the potential to develop fully. -
Socioculture
Psychologist: Lev Vygotsky
Influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences in behavior and social functioning. -
Psychobiology
How the brain, the nervous system, hormones, and genetics influence our behavior.
