Unit 1 Ch. 1 Psychology (Pt. 1)

John Watson, B. F. Skinner and Behaviorism

The focus of psychology should be on observable behavior and how learning occurs through the interaction of inborn qualities and the environment.

Multicultural Psychology

A field of study within psychology that studies the impact of cultural influences on an individual's mental processes and behavior.

Jean Piaget and Cognitive Psychology

The focus of psychology should be on studying cognitions, or thoughts, and their relationship to our experiences and our actions.

Wertheimer, et. al and Gestalt Psychology

The focus of psychology should be on the human experience as a whole rather than as a sum of individually measured parts, an area of psychology known as sensation and perception.

Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and Humanism

The focus of psychology should be on the potential for good that is innate in all humans.

Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalytic Theory

The focus of psychology should be on the role of a person's unconscious, as well as early childhood experiences.

Wilhelm Wundt and Structuralism

The goal of psychology is to scientifically study conscious experience and to identify components of consciousness and how those components combine to result in our conscious experience.

Developmental Psychology

A field of study in psychology that focuses on development across a lifespan, including the processes related to physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development.

William James and Functionalism

Psychology's purpose is to study the function of behavior in the world and how mental activities help an organism fit into its environment.

Biopsychology and Evolutionary Psychology

A field of study in psychology that focuses on the biological influences on behavior, particularly how the structure and function of the nervous system is related to behavior.