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History of psychology
Psychology became a science in the late 1800s, and each generation since has argued about what the new science should study and how. The history of the field is a relay race of perspectives - structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, Gestalt, behaviourism, humanism, and the cognitive revolution - each one still audible in psychology today.
In this topic
- Wundt's laboratory and structuralism
- James and functionalism
- Freud and psychoanalysis
- Gestalt psychology
- Behaviourism: Watson, Pavlov, Skinner
- Humanism: Maslow and Rogers
- The cognitive revolution
- Diverse pioneers and feminist psychology
- Worked example: one question, five schools
- Worked example: research that changed a nation
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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