Monthly Archive:: March 2014
History
In the 1960s, the new “force” humanistic psychology emerged. The basic themes of this new kind of psychology were to emphasize on conscious experience; the belief in the
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Psychoanalysis is a system of therapy as well as a concept for personality. Psychoanalysis is not directly comparable to other schools of thought since it is not a
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At the same time of the rise of behaviorism, Gestalt Psychology was in its beginnings. This type of psychology emphasized on the whole (German: Gestalt) rather than the
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The post-Watsonian psychology finally led to neobehaviorism. The neobehaviorists set up the main points of the new type of behaviorism: (1) learning is the main field of investigation,
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John B. Watson (1878-1958), as founder of behaviorism as a new school of thought, converged the anti-functionalist movements to a new type of psychology. Watson clearly defined his
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John B. Watson (1878-1958) was mainly responsible for initiating the behaviorism movement in the first decades of the 19th century. Watson was a positivist thinker and therefore insisted
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When the American students returned from Germany where they had studied Wundt’s psychology, they had to transform their knowledge into an applied science. The American Zeitgeist had tremendous
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One of the most influential philosophers of the 1860s in the USA was Herbert Spencer. He transcribed Darwin’s theory of the Survival of the Fittest to social and
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Functionalists are concerned with the question of brain function. The main idea of functionalism is that an organism has the power to adapt to its environment. Forerunners of
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Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) established the Leipzig laboratory and conducted many studies about the nature of conscious experience. He introduced the following terminology: voluntarism, which describes the mind’s ability
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