contribution regarding human nature and behavioural patterns. The supposed founder of

modern psychology, Wihelm Wundt, began the discipline with Structuralism. This

approach attempted to analyze the contents of the mind, using the introspectionist

method, which meant that Wundt analyzed the content of his own conscious mind. Soon

this approach was abandoned as psychology moved towards studying beahviour patterns

rather than the content of the mind. This was the basis for the school of functionalism,

which focused more on the process undertaken by the mind and eventually, many

different adaptions to these early approaches were made, creating a fairly large number

of modern approaches. The Behaviourist approach, pioneered by John Watson, is one of

the most famous current schools and it emphasizes the role of environmental stimuli in

determining the way in which human beings act. It utilized two main forms of associative

leaning, operant and classical conditioning; both advocate Stimulus-Response

relationships. Behaviourism seeked scientific methods and operational definitions to be

degrades people and repudiates one of humanity's most esteemed traits, freewill.

behaviour is gained through inherited influences, genetics, and hormonal/neurochemical

influenced by the philosophy of empiricism which argues that humans are 'blank slates' at

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