Positivism: Embraces human agency in history, uses sources for an accurate vision of the past, and includes empathetic understanding.

Narrative - Chronology: Focuses on creating narratives of the past, emphasizing the role of accidents over analysis.

Biography - Hagiography: Employs the "Great Men" method to create chronological narratives centered on individual agency.

Dialectics - Analysis: Involves synthesizing old and new theses, leading to revisionism and the establishment of new paradigms.

Meta - Narrative/Total History: Characterizes works of the Annales school that integrate various time factors in explaining human history.

Negativism: Rejects human agency, sources, and empathetic understanding of history.

Structuralism: Founded by Wundt and Titchener, focuses on breaking down mental processes into basic components using introspection.

Psychoanalytic Theory: Sigmund Freud's emphasis on the unconscious mind's influence on behavior through the id, ego, and superego.

Behaviorism: Proposed by John Watson and B.F. Skinner; asserts behavior is explained by environmental causes, using classical and operant conditioning.

Gestalt Psychology: Based on the idea that experiences are unified wholes, suggesting the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Cognitivism: Studies mental processes such as thinking, perception, and learning; connected to neuroscience.

Functionalism: Associated with William James and others, views mental life as a means of adapting to the environment, countering behaviorism and identity theory. Positivism: Embraces human agency in history, uses sources for an accurate vision of the past, and includes empathetic understanding.

Narrative - Chronology: Focuses on creating narratives of the past, emphasizing the role of accidents over analysis.

Biography - Hagiography: Employs the "Great Men" method to create chronological narratives centered on individual agency.

Dialectics - Analysis: Involves synthesizing old and new theses, leading to revisionism and the establishment of new paradigms.

Meta - Narrative/Total History: Characterizes works of the Annales school that integrate various time factors in explaining human history.

Negativism: Rejects human agency, sources, and empathetic understanding of history.

Structuralism: Founded by Wundt and Titchener, focuses on breaking down mental processes into basic components using introspection.

Psychoanalytic Theory: Sigmund Freud's emphasis on the unconscious mind's influence on behavior through the id, ego, and superego.

Behaviorism: Proposed by John Watson and B.F. Skinner; asserts behavior is explained by environmental causes, using classical and operant conditioning.

Gestalt Psychology: Based on the idea that experiences are unified wholes, suggesting the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Cognitivism: Studies mental processes such as thinking, perception, and learning; connected to neuroscience.

Functionalism: Associated with William James and others, views mental life as a means of adapting to the environment, countering behaviorism and identity theory.Positivism: Embraces human agency in history, uses sources for an accurate vision of the past, and includes empathetic understanding.

Narrative - Chronology: Focuses on creating narratives of the past, emphasizing the role of accidents over analysis.

Biography - Hagiography: Employs the "Great Men" method to create chronological narratives centered on individual agency.

Dialectics - Analysis: Involves synthesizing old and new theses, leading to revisionism and the establishment of new paradigms.

Meta - Narrative/Total History: Characterizes works of the Annales school that integrate various time factors in explaining human history.

Negativism: Rejects human agency, sources, and empathetic understanding of history.

Structuralism: Founded by Wundt and Titchener, focuses on breaking down mental processes into basic components using introspection.

Psychoanalytic Theory: Sigmund Freud's emphasis on the unconscious mind's influence on behavior through the id, ego, and superego.

Behaviorism: Proposed by John Watson and B.F. Skinner; asserts behavior is explained by environmental causes, using classical and operant conditioning.

Gestalt Psychology: Based on the idea that experiences are unified wholes, suggesting the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Cognitivism: Studies mental processes such as thinking, perception, and learning; connected to neuroscience.

Functionalism: Associated with William James and others, views mental life as a means of adapting to the environment, countering behaviorism and identity theory.

Structuralism Wilhelm Wundt

and Edward

Titchener

Considered to be the first school of thought in

Psychology.

This outlook focused on breaking down mental

processes into the most basic components.

The focus was on reducing mental processes

down into their most basic elements.

The structuralists used techniques such

www.shsph.blogspot.com 13 as introspection to

analyze the inner processes of the human mind.

Studies the unconscious mind.

Psychoanalytic

Sigmund

Freud

This school of thought

emphasized the influence of the

unconscious mind on behavior.

Freud believed that the human

mind was composed of three

elements: the id, ego, and

superego.Focuses on observable behavior.

Behaviorism

John Watson and B.F.

Skinner

Suggests that all behavior can be

explained by environmental causes

rather than by internal forces

Theories of learning including classical

conditioning and operant conditioning

were the focus of a great deal of

research

An approach to psychology that

combines elements of philosophy,

methodology, and theory

Psychology should concern itself with the

observable behavior of people and

animals, not with unobservable events

that take place in their minds. Studies the mind and behavior as a

whole

Gestalt

Psychology

Max Wertheimer,

Wolfgang Kohler,

and Kurt Koffka

A school of psychology based upon the

idea that we experience things as

unified wholes

Means “form” or “configuration”

The whole is other than the sum of its

parts

Cognitivism

The school of psychology

that studies mental

processes including how

people think, perceive,

remember and learn

As part of the larger field of

cognitive science, this

branch of psychology is

related to other disciplines

including neuroscience,

Functionalism John Dewey,

James Rowland

Angell, and

Harvey Carr.

Founder:

William James

A general psychological philosophy that

considers mental life and behavior in

terms of active adaptation to the

person’s environment

A theory of the mind in contemporary

philosophy, developed largely as an

alternative to both the identity theory of

mind and behaviorism