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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 free will, Hierarchy of needs, Peak experiences, and Self-actualization
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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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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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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:
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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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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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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.
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Humanistic theories of personality, such as those proposed by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, emphasize the inherent goodness and potential for growth in individuals. These theories focus on self-actualization, personal growth, and the pursuit of fulfillment and meaning in life.
The American psychologist Abraham Maslow famously proposed in 1954 the “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs” which theorized that psychological health culminated in self-actualization. Maslow saw that as being able to fulfill your potential, becoming your tru...
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