Timeline of Psychology
Cards (10)
- What order were the approaches established?
- Psychodynamic Approach
- Behaviourist Approach
- Humanistic Approach
- Cognitive Approach
- Social Learning Theory
- Biological Approach
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- What happened between 17th Century to 19th Century?Psychology is a branch of the philosophy.Psychology during this time was named experimental psychology.
- What happened in 1879?Wilhelm Wundt opens first experimental psychological lab in Germany.Psychology emerges as a distinct discipline in its own right.
- 1900sSigmund Freud emphasises the influence of the unconscious mind on the behaviour(psychodynamic approach.)Developed his person centred therapy( psycho-analysis.)Shows physical problems can be explained in terms of conflict within the mind.
- 1913John B Watson writes psychology as the Behaviourist views on it, and later with B.F Skinner establishes the behaviourist approach.Psychodynamic and Behaviour approaches dominate psychology for half of the 20th Century.
- 1950sCarl Rodgers and Abraham Maslow develop the humanistic approach.Humanistic psychologists emphasise the importance of self determination and free will.
- 1950sPsychologists have metaphor for the operations of the human mind-like a computer.Cognitive Approach reintroduces the study of mental processes to psychology but in a much more scientific way than Wundt's earlier investigations.
- 1960sAlbert Bandura proposes the social learning theory.Approach draws attention to the role of cognitive factors providing a bridge between new cognitive approach and traditional behaviourism.
- 1980sOnwards- Biological approach begins to establish as dominant scientific perspective.Advances in technology that have increased understanding of the brain + biological processes.
- Eve of 21st CenturyCognitive Neuroscience emerges as a distinct discipline bringing together cognitive and biological approaches investigates how biological structures influence mental states.