Schools of psychology

4. Psychology means the science or study of the mind
and behaviour, the way a person or group thinks.
Founder of psychology is Wilhelm Wundt and
William james,two men working in the 19th
century.
How are the schools of psychology used;
√Each psychologist has a personal preference
√Some schools are more beneficial in different field
of psychology

6. Wilhelm wundt and Edward Tichner
Structures of the mind
Identify the elements of thought through
Introspection and determine how these elements create
the whole experience
A model of the scientific study of mental processes
Introspection could not be used to study animals, children
or complex problems like mental disorders or personality
Considerd to be the first school of psychology

7. William James
Animal behavior and biological process
How the mind functions to adapt humans and
other animals to their Environment
Expand the scope of psychology to include,
psychotesting, modern education and diversified
into industry
No criticism

8. Sigmund freud,
 Conflicts between what people believe to be acceptable
behaviour and their unacceptable motives (sex and
aggression)
These motives are what lead to behaviour and are hidden
in the unconscious outside of our awareness
Psychotherapy, psychiatry and modern psychodynamic
psychologist
Too much emphasis on sex and aggression and not enough
emphasis on social motives and relationship
Neo Fredudians

9. John But, Watson and B F Skinner
Watson studied classical conditioning
Skinner studied how we can shape human
behaviour
Studied objective, observable environmental
Influences on behaviour
Treating people with overt problems
NonNon human research, but some human
research

10.  Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
All individuals strive to grow, develop and move
toward self actualization
Free will, self actualization and humanhuman
nature is neaturally positive and growth seeking
Personality research and psychotherapy
No criticisms

11. Jean piaget, Albert Bandura, Albert ellis
Research Emphasis was on thought perception
and information processing
Perception, memory, imagery, concept formation,
problem solving, reasoning, decision making and
language
Information processing Approach, gather
Information, process it and produce a response
No criticisms

12. John Berry, patricia Green field and Richard Brislin
Emphasizes Social Internations and cultural
determinats of behaviour and mental processes
Focuse is on cthnicity, religion, occupation and socio
economic class and how these contribute to
behaviour
Allows us to understand how society and culture
influence our behaviour and mental processes
No criticisms

13. A Educational psychologist may use structuralism
in the school
A professional working with adults and children
with special needs may use behavioural when
depicting why a client is acting a certain way

14. How ever they could bring upon opinions and
idea's about a particular school or school of
thoughts and how each can influence a person's
behaviour.
Behavioursts principally focus on how
developments in an environment created a
response with the cognitive view, they examine
how people absorb and retain in formation and
how they can retrive that data.

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