origin of psych

Origins of Psych: Hippocrates

Believed Abnormal behavior caused by diseases( 2500 years ago)

Original of pysch: humoral theory

Believed different parts of the body impacted different things, angry= liver problem

Origin of psych: Descartes 1596-1650

Convinced many people of the power of doubt and the strength of the scientific method. Can’t assume things are true. Mind and body are separate can or cannot work together.

Wilhelmina Wundt

Father of psych. First laboratory 1879, did experiments.

Part of the first two Structuralism

First school of psych ( what is) and focused on breaking down mental processes into most basic comments to understand what was going on:

Part of the first two Functionalism

Second, focused on the purpose of behaviors. Why it happened. Individual differences

Gestalt

Whole more important than separate parts opposite of structuralism

Psychoanalysis

Focused on The unconscious

Behaviorism

Objective, behavior

Cognitive

Psychological

Biological

Genetics, physchological

Biopsychosocial

All three.

Nature( Plato) vs nurture (aristotle)

Nature; biology genetics; nurture experiences environment

Three levels of analysis

Biological, psychological, social-cultural influences

Psychodynamic

Freud, Jung

Behavioral

Watson, Pavlov, skinner

Cognitive

Plaget, Chomsky

Humanistic

Maslow, Rodger’s

Biological

Sperry, olds

Evolutionary

Buss pinker

Sociocultural And social cognitive

Bandura, vygotsky