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History of Psychology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Max Wertheimer (1880–1943), Kurt Koffka (1886–1941), and Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967). They were German scientist who immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi Germany and introduced America to the Gestalt Principles. Gestalt talked about the human body as a whole and not as a sum of several individual parts.
  - - - Abraham Maslow was an American Psychologist that came up with a hierarchy of human needs.
        
        Carl Rogers was a psychologist that believed that psychologist need to have three key features to help their patients: unconditional positive regard, genuineness, and empathy.
        
        Humanism is the innate goodness in all humans.
- - - - One of William's Students, Edward Titchener, would develop structuralism, which was the focus on mental processes functions.
      - William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Peirce would develop Functionalism, which was based on Darwin's theory of evolution. Functionalism is the pursuit of knowledge on how behavior helps benefit an organism.
        
        Sigmund Freud was a neurologist that studied the unconscious mind related to Hysteria. Psychoanalytic theory is the study on the role of the unconscious and previous childhood experiences
        
        Psychoanalytic Theory
- - - - John B. Watson was different and thought that the analysis of the mind was near impossible, instead he focused directly on the behaviors he could see and manipulate.
        
        Behaviorism is how the study of behaviors effects an organism.
- - - - Ulric Neisser published the first book on cognitive psychology.
        
        Noam Chomsky believed that mental functioning should be reincluded in the study of pyschology.
        
        Was how psychologists were pulled back into the study of the mind as a part of psychology