APSY-352 Schools and Perspectives in Psychology
APSY-352 Schools and Perspectives in Psychology
APSY-352 Schools and Perspectives in Psychology
Course Objectives
Course Outcome
Course Contents
Schools of Psychology
Brief history of psychology
Structuralism
Functionalism
Greek contribution
Introduction to Perspectives
Major assumptions, major contributors and basic concepts
Biological Perspective
Heredity
Genes and chromosomes
Endocrine glands
Psychodynamic Perspective
Classical psychoanalysis
Neo-Freudians
Behaviouristic Perspective
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Social learning
Humanistic Perspective
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Existential Perspective
Thomas Szaz
Victor Frankel
Gestalt Perspective
Fritz Perls
Socio-Cultural Perspective
Current Trends
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