Unit 1: History of Western Psychology that We Know

Question 1

Psychology as a
separate discipline
from Philosophy

Answer 1

Wundt’s
psychological
laboratory in
Leipzig, Germany (1879)

Question 2

Psychology’s Early
School of
Thoughts

Answer 2

James’ Functionalism (1890), Titchener’s Structuralism (1901-1906)

Question 3

The Emergence of Psychoanalysis

Answer 3

Freud’s
Psychoanalysis (1896)

Question 4

The Rise of
Behaviorism

Answer 4

1. Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning (1901-1906)
2. Watson’s Behaviorism (1913)
3. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning (1938)

Question 5

The Third Force in
Psychology

Answer 5

Maslow and Roger’s Humanistic Psychology (1954)

Question 6

The Dominant
Approach to the
study of
Psychology

Answer 6

Cognitive Psychology (1956)