-introspection, or analysis of the contents of
consciousness
-analysis of immediate experiences (sensation, images, feelings)
-experience through the senses
-elements of the mind
-Wundt
-Titchener
structualism (wundtian psychology)
-objective, observation, plus some use of introspection
-purpose of behavior and consciousness
-looked at cause and consequence of practical behaviors
-study of the organism as a whole working in its environment
-Dewey
-James
-Cattell
-Darwin
functionalism
-objective observation and the conditioned-reflex method
-the verbal report method
-laws of learning
-Watson
-Skinner
(can be measured)
behaviorism
-study of conscious experience
-study of phenomena as perceived by the subject
-perceptual and learning phenomena
*stresses wholeness and meaningfulness of behavior
-laws of perception
-Kohler
-Koffa
-Lewin
-Wertheimer
(the whole is greater than the sum of its parts)
Gestalt Psychology
-free association
-dream analysis
-projective test
-role of emotion and motivation--unconscious determing behavior
-the depths of unconscious
-Freud
Psychoanalysis
-interviews, literary writings & other cretive productions
-subjective expereince ≠ behavior
-humaness--the qualities that distinguish humans from lower animals
-Rogers
-Maslow