Exam 9: The Age of Schools

By the middle of the 20th century, the dominant schools were behaviorism and psychoanalysis.

What were the major "schools" of psychology, and when did each of them flourish?

Describe the fate of the schools during the second half of the 20th century.

Scientific materialism was a central tenet for all five of the schools of psychology.

Structuralism flourished at the University of Chicago and Columbia University.

What were some of the major issues on which the schools differed?

When did fragmentation become a feature of psychology?

Which of the schools concentrated primarily on introspection to analyze conscious contents?

The functionalist approach was more explicit at Chicago than at Columbia.

The functionalist school emphasized mainly

The fragmentation of psychology during the first half of the 20th century gave way to attempts at unification of the field during the second half of the 20th century.

Behaviorism argued that the best source of psychological information in introspection.

Gestalt psychology championed the use of free association and dream analysis.