Schools of Psychology
Schools of Psychology
Psychology
Dr SAJEENA S
Contents
Introduction to Schools of
Psychology
• Structuralism
• Functionalism
• Gestalt psychology
• Behaviorism
• Psycho analysis
• Humanistic Psychology
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Psychology……..
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Defining psychology
in terms of………..
Soul
Mind
Consciousness
Behavior
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“Psychology as
the description
and explanation
of state of
consciousness
as such”
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“the science of
consciousness”
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“Psychology is a science which aims to
give more understanding and control
of the behaviour of the organism as
a whole”
“First Psychology lost its soul, then its mind, then it
lost its consciousness. It still has behaviour of a
sort”- Woodworth (1948)
Different Methods of
Psychology
Introspection
Observation
Experimental method
Differential method
Clinical method
Psycho-physical
methods
Systems or Schools of
Psychology
Structuralism
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