3 perspecitves of early psychology
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:08:14
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 2 pages (587 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 2 pages (587 words)
There are 10 different perspectives of early psychology. I will be focusing on three: Gestalt psychology, psychodynamic, and cognitive. Here is a summary of each.
Gestalt psychology: Belief that the whole (Gestalt) is more than the sum of the parts, particularly in human behavior. For example the brain "sees" the rapid presentation of photographs as cinematographic motion, a musical piece is more than just collection of notes. The Gestalt school arose from researchers like Max Wertheimer, …
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…the unconscious sexual and aggressive drives have been re-evaluated to focus on conscious experience, resulting in, for example, the birth of ego psychology.
Sources:
Davis, S. F., & Palladino, J. J. (2000). Psychology (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Francois Dosse. History of Structuralism (two volumes). University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Goldman, Alvin: Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Cambridge: MIT, 1993).
Hill, Christopher S.: Sensations (Cambridge: Cambridge, 1991).
Loar, Brian: Mind and Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge, 1981).
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