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PSYCHOANALYSIS
Major thinkers associated with: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud and Otto Rank, and neo-Freudians such as Erik Erikson, Alfred Adler, and Karen Horney
The human mind was composed of three elements, which their interaction led to all of the complex human behaviors:
- the id (primal urges),
- ego (personality charged with dealing with reality),
- superego (Holds all the ideals and values from our parents and culture)
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.
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STRUCTUTALISM
Major thinkers associated with Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener
This 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 structurali...
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HUMANISM
Major thinkers associated with: Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Clark Moustakas
Humanistic psychology focus on helping people achieve and fulfill their potential. Humanistic psychology focused on topics such as: Becoming a fully functioning person, Individual fre...
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FUNCTIONALISM
Major thinkers associated with: William James
It 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 unders...
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COGNITIVISM
Major thinkers associated with: Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky
Cognitive 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 neu...
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GESTALT
Major thinkers associated with: Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka
Instead 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 thinke...
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BEHAVIORISM
Major thinkers associated with: John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov, and B. F. Skinner
Behaviorism suggests that all behavior can be explained by environmental causes rather than by internal forces. Behaviorism is focused on observable behavior.
(This school have si...
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The Psychoanalytic School of Thought
Psychoanalysis emphasises the influence of the unconscious mind on behaviour.
Sigmund Freud found this school of thought. He believed that the mind was composed of three elements that interacted to create complex human behaviours:
- Id consists of p...
2. Psychodynamic Theories
Psychodynamic theories, popularized by Sigmund Freud, emphasize the role of unconscious processes and early childhood experiences in shaping personality. According to Freud, personality is composed of three parts: the id, ego, and superego, which interact to produce behavior.
Personality Psychology: Important Terminology
- Classical conditioning: A behavioural technique where a natural stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus. The previously neutral stimulus eventually cause the response without pairing it to the natural stimulus.
- Operant conditioning: A...
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