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Wave 3: Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud,"most feelings come from a place hidden in the mind"

Superego: your conscious: tells you whether or not to do something

Ego: aware of reality, is rational

Idea of the unconscious: the Id-pleasure

Wave 2: Gestalt Psychology, led by Max Wartheimer. Focused on our experience of the world

Principles of Psychology (1890)

Concept of "introspection"-breaking the mind down into different parts

first psych lab created in 1879 in London, by Wilhelm Wundt

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Wave 4: Behaviorism

Popular in the 1950s when appearance>expression

If your behavior can be altered, inner feelings are irrelevant.

Focus on observable actions

All about variety and the 7 perspectives of psychology.

Cognitive: specifically aimed at the thought process, how we receive info

Humanistic: Concept of spirituality, free will

Behavioral: How we learn through rewards; cause & effect per say

Psychodynamic: focuses on the unconscious mind. Someone may repress true feelings and not know it due to past experiences, etc

Evolutionary Perspective: focuses on Darwinism: "Inherited behaviors: the idea that our behaviors were also used by our ancestors and put to use in order to survive.

Behavior Genetics: Tells to which degree genes and our environment contribute to individual differences

Biological: the idea that all feelings and behaviors have organic roots

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Wave 5: Eclectic