PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frederic Bartlett, Fritz Heider, Hermann Ebbinghaus

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The most important approaches (schools) of psychology school of psychology : Structuralism: uses the method of introspection to identify the basic elements or structures of psychological experience ; wilhelm wundt. Functionalism: attempts to understand why animals and humans have developed the particular psychological aspects that they currently possess ; william james. Psychodynamic: focuses on the role of our unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories and our early childhood experiences in determining behavior ; sigmund freud. Behaviorism: based on the premise that it is not possible to objectively study the mind, and therefore that psychologists should limit their attention to the study of behavior itself ; john b. Cognitive: the study of mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, and judgments ; hermann ebbinghaus, sir frederic bartlett, jean piaget. Social-cultural: the study of how the social situations and the cultures in which people find themselves influence thinking and behavior important contributors ; fritz heider, leon.

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