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elements of consciousness, mental apparatus
structuralism
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functions of the mind, which may require multiple structures
functionalism
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how ideas become associated with one another in the mind, thereby resulting in a form of learning
associationism
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study observable behavior, not consciousness or mental introspection
behaviorism
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study perception and cognitive behavior as a whole. mental phenomena cannot be understood by breaking them down into parts.
gestalt psychology
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understand how people think. unlike gestaltists, they wanted to break mental operations down into parts. how knowledge is learned, processed, and stored
cognitivism
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understand personality by studying the underlying drives and motivators that shape it from childhood. emphasis on pathology
psychoanalysis
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emphasizes conscious experience in personal development, free will, importance of human potential
humanistic
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