History of psychology

The History of Psychology

philosophy

biology

physics When did psychology

start?1879

psychoanalysis

Behaviorism

cognitive

biological

sociocultural1800s

Definition of psychology

Where did psychology come from?

How did psychology develop?

1900-40s 1940s present

Philosophy

• The separation between body and soul• Back to the ancient Greeks.• Hippocrates proposed the “Wondering womb”

to explain the cause of medical pathologies in women. This included a range of physical symptoms but also “hysteria”. This was believed until the 17th Century when knowledge of anatomy improved.

Trepanning

Phrenology-developed in 1796

Wilhelm Wundt 1879

• First psychological laboratory in Leipzig Germany.

Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis

• The unconscious mind• Case studies• Ego, Id, Superego

ID Ego Superego

John Watson-Behaviourism

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors”.

Little Albert

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBfnXACsOI

• Only observable behaviour should be studied.

Too reductionist

• What able mental processes• What about our social interactions• What about our genes

• A range of viewpoints is needed to understand behaviour

Modern day psychology

• Cognitive Human relationships• Biological Sport• Sociocultural Business• Abnormal Health• Developmental

There is a lot of OVERLAP!