Social Science

• Psychology: study of behavior and mental processes, how people think, act, react and interact.
• Psychology: "Psyche" (mind / soul) + "logos" (study)
• Psychiatry: Study of mental disorders and their diagnosis, management and prevention.
• Wilhelm Wundt (1879), the "Father of Psychology"
• Structuralism: Study of mental processes by specifying the elements of consciousness through introspection.
• Functionalism (William James - 1890): addresses the social structure as a whole and in terms of the necessary function of it constituent elements.
• Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud - 1900): "Life force" / libido / sex drive influences the unconscious mind of child's personality.
• Libido (Carl Jung): not only sex drive but the desire to excel.
• Behaviorism: All behavior can be explained by environmental causes rather than by internal forces.
• John Watson (1913) - Father of behaviorism, developed the ABC model of learning.
• B.F. Skinner - Operant Condition "Skinner box"
• Ivan Pavlov - Classical condition: Pavlov's dog