Wave 3: Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud,"most feelings come from a place hidden in the mind"
Superego: your conscious: tells you whether or not to do something
Ego: aware of reality, is rational
Idea of the unconscious: the Id-pleasure
Wave 2: Gestalt Psychology, led by Max Wartheimer. Focused on our experience of the world
Principles of Psychology (1890)
Concept of "introspection"-breaking the mind down into different parts
first psych lab created in 1879 in London, by Wilhelm Wundt
Main topic
Wave 4: Behaviorism
Popular in the 1950s when appearance>expression
If your behavior can be altered, inner feelings are irrelevant.
Focus on observable actions
All about variety and the 7 perspectives of psychology.
Cognitive: specifically aimed at the thought process, how we receive info
Humanistic: Concept of spirituality, free will
Behavioral: How we learn through rewards; cause & effect per say
Psychodynamic: focuses on the unconscious mind. Someone may repress true feelings and not know it due to past experiences, etc
Evolutionary Perspective: focuses on Darwinism: "Inherited behaviors: the idea that our behaviors were also used by our ancestors and put to use in order to survive.
Behavior Genetics: Tells to which degree genes and our environment contribute to individual differences
Biological: the idea that all feelings and behaviors have organic roots
