Approaches 1
(EARLY APPROACH) Used introspection (act of looking inward and examine mental experience) to determine the underlying STRUCTURES of the mind
Structuralism
(EARLY APPROACH) need to analyze the PURPOSE of behavior.
Functionalism
First female president of APA
Mary Calkins
1st female PhD
Margaret Floy Washburn
Basic Research
The purpose is to increase knowledge (rats)
Unconscious, childhood
Psychoanalytic/dynamic
Genes
Evolutionary
Natural selection and evolution
Charles Darwin
1st fem.
Christine ladd Franklin
Applied research
The purpose is to help people
Learned, Reinforced
Behavioral
Brain, NTs
Biological
1st President of APA 1st journal
Stanley Hall
psychologist
Research or counseling- MS or PhD.
Free will, choice, ideal, actualization
Humanistic
Sociocultural
Father of American psychology- functionalist
William James
Psychiatrist
Prescribe medications and diagnose- M.D.
Perceptions, thoughts
Cognitive
Combo of above
Biopsychosocial
Father of modern psychology- structionalist
Wilhem Wundt