Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psychology Schools
- Roots of Psychology
- Plato (427-347 BCE) /Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
- relationships - mind and body, knowledge and experience
- Empiricists/Locke (1632-1704)
- mind is a blank slate
- Structuralism
- our consciousness can be broken down into its essential elemenrs
- Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
- Edward Titchener (1867-1923)
- Functionalism
- Our consciousness serves an adaptive purpose by helping us survive
- William James (1842-1910)
- Psychodynamic Theory
- our behavior is deeply influenced by unconscious thoughts, impulses and desires
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
- Behaviorism
- our behavior is learned, observable, and measurable
- James B. Watson (1878-1958)
- B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
- Gestalt Viewpoint
- to understand consciousness, we must study the whole, not just its component parts
- Max Wertheimer (1880-1941)
- Humanistic Psychology
- we have free will to live more creative, meaningful, and satisfying lives
- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
- Carl Rogers (1902-1987)
- Cognitive Psychology
- how our brain processes information influences how we behave
- Ulric Neisser (1928-2012)