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Describe three main schools in psychology in terms of distinguishing features and historical influences.
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Lisa Flavell Psychology Describe three main schools in psychology in terms of distinguishing features and historical influences. There are many different schools within the field of psychology. These schools have fundamentally different perspectives on the best way in which to study psychology. Psychology can be described as the scientific objective study of behaviour and mental processes or as one of the leading founders of modern psychology defined "the science on mental life" (James, William 1980). Each school within psychology has its own distinguishing features; for example the behaviourist focuses on observable behaviour where as the psychoanalysist would direct attention to the unconscious and the importance of motivation and past experiences. Like-wise in that the biologist is more concerned with the physiological state (e.g. the activities of the brain) of a being rather than the humanistic psychologist who is mainly concerned with the uniqueness of the individual and their ability to self actualize there...
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