School of Psychology

Summary of Theory

Psychodynamic Psychology

Behaviorism

Stresses the basic units of experience and the combinations in which they occur.

Theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment

Cognitive Psychology

School of Psychology that studies how people perceive and experience objects as whole patterns

Humanistic Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology

An approach to, and subfield of, psychology that is concerned with the evolutionary origins of behaviors and mental process, their adaptive value, and the purposes they continue to serve.

Psychologist

School of Psychology

Important Information

Believed “consciousness couldn’t be defined and shouldn’t be studied. For him psychology was only the study of measurable observable behavior. Based his theory on Pavlov’s conditioning training of dogs. Created conditioned fear response in “Little Albert.”

Psychodynamic Theories

Wilhelm Wundt

Founded the first psychological laboratory in 1879. Considered the father of psychology because he moved psychology from realm of philosophy to the world of science.

Mary Cover Jones

Interested in latest advances in chemistry and physics and believed psychologists should analyze complex experiences in terms of their simplest components. Broke down consciousness into three basic elements: physical sensations (what we see), feelings (such as liking or disliking bananas), and images (memories of other bananas).

Functionalism