approches

• The four goals of psychology are to describe a behaviour or cognition, explain a behaviour or cognition, predict a behaviour or cognition, and change a behaviour or cognition.
• Psychology has always been considered a science, appearing as a branch of experimental philosophy in 1805.
• Wilhelm Wundt opened the first experimental lab in 1887, aiming to study the mind under controlled conditions.
• Wundt trained people in introspection, a method where someone saw something and had to write down their thoughts and feelings.
• Psychology threw out the ages in the 17th-19th century, when it was seen as a branch of philosophy.
• In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt opened a psychology lab in Germany, marking the appearance of the discipline as a distinct discipline in its own right.
• Sigmund Freud emphasised the influence of the unconscious mind on behaviour in the 1900s, developing his own person-centred therapy, psycho analysis, and showing that physical problems can explain physical problems.
• John b Watson wrote psychology as the behaviourism views it in 1913, later with b.f skinner establishing the behaviourist approach.
• The psychodynamic and behaviourist approach dominated psychology for the first half of the century.
• Carl rogers and Abraham Maslow developed the humanistic approach in the 1950s, emphasising the importance of self-determination and worth.
• The introduction of the computer gave ideas of the cognitive approach in the 1960s.
• Albert bandura developed social learning theory in the 1960s, supplying a bridge between cognitive and behaviourism.
• The biological approach due to advances in technology and having an increase in brain and biological approaches became prominent in the 1980s.
• Cognitive neuroscience, which brings together the biological and cognitive approach, is prevalent on the eve of the 21st century.