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The History of Psychology: Humanistic and Cognitive Psychology

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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The History of Psychology: Psychoanalysis

Savas Papadopoulos

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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The History of Psychology: Gestalt Psychology

Savas Papadopoulos

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 History of Psychology: Behaviorism, After the Founding

Savas Papadopoulos

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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The History of Psychology: Behaviorism

Savas Papadopoulos

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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The History of Psychology: Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences

Savas Papadopoulos

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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The History of Psychology: Applied Psychology

Savas Papadopoulos

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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The History of Psychology: Functionalism: Development and Founding

Savas Papadopoulos

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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The History of Psychology: Functionalism

Savas Papadopoulos

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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The History of Psychology: The New Psychology

Savas Papadopoulos

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