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Psychology Approaches

  • Functionalism

    Functionalism
    Psychologist: William James
    How animals and people adapt to their environments.
  • Structuralism

    Structuralism
    Psychologist: Wilhelm Wundt
    Internal thought process.
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits
    Pyschologist: Sir Francis Galton
    Understanding how heredity, or biological traits passed from parents to children, influences abilities, character, and behabior.
  • Behaviorism

    Behaviorism
    Psychologist: John B Watson
    Analyzes how organisms learn to motify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment.
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis
    Psychologist: Sigmund Freud
    Study of consious and unconsioud motivations behind human behavior.
  • Cognitive

    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

    Humanistic Psychology
    Psychologists: Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May.
    Each person has a unique individual identity and the potential to develop fully.
  • Socioculture

    Socioculture
    Psychologist: Lev Vygotsky
    Influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences in behavior and social functioning.
  • Psychobiology

    Psychobiology
    How the brain, the nervous system, hormones, and genetics influence our behavior.