Major thinkers associated with: Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Clark MoustakasHumanistic psychology focus on helping people achieve and fulfill their potential. Humanistic psychology focused on topics such as: Becoming a fully functioning person, Individual free will, Hierarchy of needs, Peak experiences, and Self-actualization

HUMANISM

Psychologies always try to describe and explain the human mind and behavior. The different schools of psychology represent the major theories within the field of psychological science. The main schools of psychology are:<ul><li>Structuralism</li><li>Functionalism</li><li>Gestalt </li><li>Behaviorism </li><li>Psychoanalysis </li><li>Humanism </li><li>Cognitivism.</li></ul>

Major thinkers associated with: William JamesIt functioned on the mind's functions and adaptations. Instead of focusing on the mental processes themselves, functionalist thinkers were interested in the role that these processes play. Gaining a better understanding of the purpose would allow psychologists to better understand how the mind allows people to respond and adapt to their environments.

FUNCTIONALISM

Major thinkers associated with: Jean Piaget, Lev VygotskyCognitive psychology is the school of psychology that studies mental processes, including how people think, perceive, remember and learn. This branch of psychology is related to other disciplines such as neuroscience, philosophy, and linguistics.

COGNITIVISM

Major thinkers associated with: Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt KoffkaInstead of breaking down thoughts and behavior to their smallest elements, the gestalt psychologists believed that you must look at the whole of experience. According to Gestalt thinkers, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, a philosophy known as holism

GESTALT

Major thinkers associated with Wilhelm Wundt and Edward TitchenerThis outlook focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. The focus of structuralism was on reducing mental processes down into their most basic elements. The structuralists used techniques such as introspection to analyze the inner processes of the human mind.

STRUCTUTALISM

Major thinkers associated with: John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov, and B. F. SkinnerBehaviorism suggests that all behavior can be explained by environmental causes rather than by internal forces. Behaviorism is focused on observable behavior. (This school have significally impact the course of psychology. Many ideas and techniques that emerged from this school of thought are still widely used today)

BEHAVIORISM

Major thinkers associated with: Sigmund Freud,  Anna Freud and Otto Rank, and neo-Freudians such as Erik Erikson, Alfred Adler, and Karen HorneyThe human mind was composed of three elements, which their interaction led to all of the complex human behaviors: <ul><li>the id (primal urges), </li><li>ego (personality charged with dealing with reality), </li><li>superego (Holds all the ideals and values from our parents and culture)</li></ul>Other important theories included the idea of the conscious and unconscious, Freud's psychosexual approach to personality development, and the concept of life and death instincts.

PSYCHOANALYSIS 

Psychology always try to understand human minds and behaviors

Several different schools of psychology have influenced the development of psychological thought. Learn the main schools of thought and the theories they inspired.

FUNCTIONALISM

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Psychology: Early Schools of Thought