HISTORICAL

INFLUENCES
Matthew Weitz
PSY310
9/14/2015
Shannon Kelly

THE MAIN INFLUENCES INVOLVED IN

THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
Theories of development
Some developmental theories focus on the formation of a specific quality, such
asKohlbergs theory of moral development.
Other developmental theories focus on growth that happens throughout the
lifespan, such as Eriksons theory of psychosocial development.
Grand theories are those comprehensive ideas often proposed by major thinkers
such as Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget.
Grand theories of development include psychoanalytic theory, learning theory and
cognitive theory. These theories seek to explain much of human behavior, but are
often considered outdated and incomplete in the face of modern research.
Psychologists and researchers often use grand theories as a basis for exploration,
but consider smaller theories and recent research as well

THE FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN

In a broad sense, the brain is the set of elements of the central nervous system contained within
the cranium, growing medical understanding of the brain to suggest that the powers of the
human characteristics in this body are the higher mental functions, speech and emotions, a
complete definition of these functions would fill many pages of a specialized text, however
generally we can consider that the brain has three major functional units:
For regulating muscle tone and wakefulness.
This includes the ascending reticular system and the limbic system, the first regulates
wakefulness, is through conscious attention and allows perception, the second part in the
following activities:
* Regulation of emotional behavior.
* Regulation of sexual behavior.
* Speed control and eating behavior.
* Regulation of sleep-wake cycles.
* Regulation of visceral activities among others.

CONTINUATION THE FUNCTION

OF THE BRAIN
Processing and storage unit information the brain receives.
This unit is divided into:
* Sensory general.
* Hearing.
* Visual.
Unit programming, regulation and verification of mental activity
Its basic function is to verify the conscious activity, training plans and schedule
actions, she mechanisms of motor activity, intelligent deliberation and regulation of
behavior involved.
Brain function is so complex and sophisticated end in that there are still many
unanswered questions, so if we can say definitely is that "the human brain is one of
the great wonders of nature."

HOW THE RESEARCH INFLUENCED THE STUDY OF

THE MIND-BODY INTERACTION.

The mindbody connection

How our senses work.

HOW THE RESEARCH INFLUENCED THE

STUDY OF THE MIND-BODY INTERACTION.

DUALISM

THE MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS THAT LED TO

EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Wundt and other psiclgos awareness focused on the introspective
analysis of adult and normal human mind, trying to develop an
experimental science, psychology instead given by Freud focused on the
abnormal mental processes and expose arose consciousness, showing it
as a puppet at the mercy of a series of repulsive primitive impulses that
we never dare to recognize; instead of carrying out experiments, mind
Freud investigated by clinical examination, looking for the hidden origins
of human behavior in the unconscious, in the early childhood and waste
developments. Psychoanalysis Freud represents the third major blow to
human self-esteem (the first is when Copernicus demonstrated that
human beings do not live in the center of the universe, the second was
the Darwinian demonstration that humans are part of nature) is the
demonstration that the human ego is not master in his own house.

DESCRIBES EACH INFLUENCE OR DEVELOPMENT AND HOW

THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY
Developmental Psychology can be divided into four stages:
Stage 1: (eighteenth and early nineteenth): First observations
During the fourteenth century began to collect in France the most important family events called "Livres
de raison". In the sixteenth and early seventeenth century information from medical treatises concerning
the physical care and development at the early stages appear. During this century the works of John
Locke, in these states that all behavior is acquired also appear. During the last quarter of the eighteenth
century a large number of studies on children appears. Although undoubtedly the most important
contribution was the appearance of "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin, which marked a turning
point in the conceptions of biological evolution and especially of man. Before the work of Darwin, the
main object of the study was to find the differences between adult-children, human-animal; but after
Darwin, the subject matter shifted to determining similarities between adult and child.
Stage 3: Consolidation and development
This discipline had its biggest establishment and development in the USA, where there were many
advances. Note the importance of the measure of intelligence, strengthening the psychological role in
society and the creation of research centers on development. In addition to the extension of the
methodology and the fragmentation of the study subjects.
Stage 4: Growth and Expansion
They were two fundamental facts:
1 Revisionism and modification of existing theories.
2 Development of new theories or approaches to the study of human development.

THE BIGGEST NAMES IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Stanley Hall
Sigmund Freud - Psychosexual development.
Alfred Binet - French physician and jurist.
James Mark Baldwin - American psychologist.
Jean Piaget - Cognitive Development.
Lev Vygotsky - historical-cultural-social Development.
Donald Winnicott - English pediatrician and psychoanalyst.
Erik Erikson - Affective development of self.
Henri Wallon - psychologist, philosopher, and politician French neuropsychiatrist.
Lawrence Kohlberg - Moral Development.
James Fowler - Spiritual Development.
Ken Wilber - Developing awareness.

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