Humanistic Psychology

1. Plato (427-347 B.C.E.) was a student of Socrates. He believes in innate knowledge that we access through careful reasoning. Plato also divided the world into two realms, pure and abstract, and all else physical and mundane. He suggests that reason is responsible for balancing our desires (appetites) on the hand with our (spirit) on the others in pursuit of reason’s goals (Plato, 427-347 B.C.E.).

2. Wilhelm Wundt, founded the first psychological laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig in Germany. There were only four students that attended his first lecture but by the mid-1890’s all his classes where filled to capacity (Wundt, 1879).

Wundt was primarily interested in memory and selective attention. This is the process by which we

Humanistic psychology, year is unknown. School of psychology that emphasizes nonverbal experience and altered states of consciousness as a means of realizing one’s full human potential. Humanistic psychologists emphasize human potential and the importance of love, belonging, self-esteem and self-expression, peak experiences, and self-actualization.

7. Cognitive psychology, year is unknown. School of psychology devoted to the study of mental processes in the broadest sense. Cognitive psychology is the study of our mental processes in the broadest sense: thinking, feeling, learning, and remembering.

8. Evolutionary psychology happened in the year 2005. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to, and subfield of psychology that is concerned with the evolutionary origins of behaviors and mental processes, their adaptive value, and the purposes they continue to serve (Buss, 2005).

9. Positive psychology happened in the year of 2013. This is an emerging field of psychology that focuses on positive experiences, including subjective well begin, self-determination, the relationship between positive emotions and physical health, and the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish (Snyder, Lopez, and Pedrotti,