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Structuralism
Edward B. Titchener is the founder of the first school of pschology "structuralism". Structuralism is describing things and that shows how you feel. Such as looking at an apple and describing its weight, size, and color. And that can show how something about te apple affected why you liked it. -
Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt shows how the mind perceives things. Gestalt psychologists suggested that adding individual parts of an experience together creates something new and different. -
Functionalism
William James the founder of functionalism thought psychology needed to study the functions of consciousness or the ways the consciousness helps people adapt to their environment. -
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis studies abnormal behavior and says that experiences from the past cause our actions now. It also relied on personal observation and reflection instead of controlled laboratory experimentation as means of discovery. -
Behaviorism
The study of human action. Ivan Pavlov moved psychology toward observable behavior and away from self-examination of inner ideas and experiences. It was first introduced by John B. Watson. -
Child Development
Child Development studies the way children think and behave at a certain age. Jean Piaget first started stugying this when he starting teaching at a school and noticed that younger kids consistently mad mistakes on tests that older kids did not make. -
Humanistic Psychology
Humanistic psychology believes that people have a free will in decision making and that healthy people strive to reach their full potential.they believed the humans could not be reduced to variuos parts and pieces. -
Albert Bundera
Albert Bundera was a big contributor to personal development and did a lot of observational learning -
Publishing
Stanley Milgram publishes Obedience to Authority, which presented the finding of his famous obedience