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| A historical school of psychology devoted to uncovering the basic structures that make up mind and thought. Structuralists sought the "elements" of conscious experience. |
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| A historical school of psychology that believed mental processes could best be understood in terms of their adaptive purpose and function. |
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| A historical school of psychology that sought to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning. Gestalt psychologists believed that percepts consist of meaningful wholes. |
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| A historical school that sought to make psychology an objective science that focused only on behavior-to the exclusion of mental process. |
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| The psychological perspective that searches for the causes of behavior in the functioning genes, the brain and nervous system, and the endocrine (hormone) system. |
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| The psychological perspective emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan. |
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| The psychological perspective emphasizing mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception, and thinking, as forms of information processing. |
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| The psychological perspective emphasizing mental health and mental illness. Psychodynamic and Humanistic psychology are variations on the clinical view. |
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| A clinical viewpoint emphasizing the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs, desires, memories, and conflicts. |
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| A clinical Viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential and free will. |
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| A psychological perspective that finds the source of our actions in environmental stimuli, rather than in inner mental processes. |
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| A psychological perspective that views behavior and personality as the products of enduring psychological characteristics. |
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| A psychological perspective emphasizing the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective. |
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