psychology the seven perspectives and the people who made them famous

Psychology

The seven perspectives and the people who made them famous

Psychoanalytic

Childhood experiences greatly influence the development of later personality traits and psychological problems.Unconscious / Fears / Desires

FreudJungHorneyAdlerErikson

Humanistic

Emphasizes that each individual has great freedom in directing his/her future, a large capacity for achieving personal growth, intrinsic worth, and enormous potential for self-fulfillment.

Phenomenological / Holistic / Self-Actual Needs

Maslow

Rogers

Behavioral

Analyzes how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones, depending on whether events in their environments reward or punish these behaviors.Learning / Society / Conditioning / Observable / Rewards

PavlovWatsonSkinnerBanduraVygotsky

Cognitive

Focuses on how we process, store, and use information and how this information influences what we attend to, perceive, learn, remember, believe, and feel.Thinking / Metacognition / Mental Processes

PiagetSchachterFestigerEbbinghaus

Neurobiological

Examines how our genes, hormones, and nervous system interact with our environments to influence learning, personality, memory, motivation, emotions, coping techniques, and other traits and abilities.Nature / Genetics / Neurons / Critical Periods / Brain

BrocaWernickeChomsky

Socio-Cultural

Maintains that behavior and mental processes are shaped not only by prior learning experiences or the unconscious but also by social or cultural context.Culture / Groups / Norms / Roles / Attributions

Kurt LewinZimbardoAschMilgrim

Evolutionary

Shows how heredity along with other evolutionary ideas like fixed action patterns and imprinting affect ultimately our personality and our will to survive.

Heredity / Imprinting / Survival

Chomsky

Darwin