7 Historical Schools of Psychology

  • Functionalism

    Functionalism considers mental life and behaviors activate adaption to a persons environment, introduced by William James.
  • Behaviorism

    The study of observable behaviors and how humans react to stimuli, introduced by Ivan Pavlov and John Watson.
  • Psychoanalysis

    The study of the unconscious mind and how experiences from your past cause your actions now and your future, founded by Sigmund Freud.
  • Structuralism

    The study of a conscious experience by analyzing the intensity, clarity, and quality of individual parts of the mind, founded by Edward B. Titchener.
  • Child Development

    The study of cognitive development which led to a better understanding of a child's thought process, introduced by Jean Piaget.
  • Humanistic

    Experiences from our past cause your actions now and your future, founded by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
  • Gestalt

    The gestalt theory emphasizes that a whole of anything is better than its parts, introduced by Wolfgang Kohler.
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