What is psychology

PSYCHOLOGY IS….

The word “psychology” comes from two specific Greek words—psyche, which means “soul,” “life,” or “mind,” and logia, which means “the study of.”

Psychology is the scientific study of how people behave, think and feel.

THE GOAL OF PSYCHOLOGY IS

EARLY HISTORY

WILHELM WUNDT
Wilhelm Wundt is considered by many to be the founder of psychology.
He laid the groundwork for what would later become the theory of structuralism.

William James was one of the leading figures in a new perspective on psychology called functionalism.

HERMANN EBBINGHAUS

IVAN PAVLOV

One of the dogs used in Pavlov's experiment with a surgically implanted cannula to measure salivation, preserved in the Pavlov Museum in Ryazan, Russia

SIGMUND FREUD
introduced the field of psychoanalysis, a type of psychotherapy

BEHAVIORISM

HUMANISM

COGNITIVE THEORY

DEFINING “NORMAL” AND “HEALTHY”