Have you ever were curious at some point, about why you act differently in certain situations and/or the types of behaviours you are observing about yourself and others. And the types of behaviours you had in each stage as you were developing over the years. Psychologists seek answers to questions like these as they study behaviour and the mental processes of the brain. The five main psychologists have inspired and demonstrated and shown how and why the human mind and their behaviours act the way we do with their theories. The history of Sigmund freud and his theory the three part psych-consisting the id, ego and superego and how it helped understand the human mind unconscious and conscious and the behavior, the history of Ivan pavlov and his theory the classical conditioning and how it help understand human behavior and it can change, the history of B. F skinner and his theory operant conditions which helped understand if human behaviour manage to change from positive and negative reinforcement, last but not least jean piaget and erik erikson and sigmund freud and their history and theories the developmental psychology-pshcosexual development, cognitive development and psychosocial development and how it help human progress and understand their development in different perspectives through their years and how their stages and concepts are similar from each others.
In the early twentieth century, psychologists began to develop psychodynamic theories as a new approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient's conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings. based on the sigmund freud's psychoanalytic theory the conception of human consciousness as consisting of the three distinct parts: the id, ego and superego which are based on the belief that unlocking the unconscious mind is the key to understanding human behaviour and relationships. Also early childhood experiences are also seen as important to understanding a person's personality, motivations, and behaviours. sigmund freud was an australian doctor who began to treat people for their mental health and prescribed medicine for them thus from that he became one of the very first psychiatrist. And the founder of psychoanalysis a treatment method that is based on his theory the unconscious. He believed that our behaviour is influenced by the primal fears, desires and past guilt that lurks in the unconscious mind. Psychoanalysis is based on freud's theory of the three part psych- consisting of the id, ego and superego. Freud believed that our ego struggles to find a socially acceptable compromise between the primal urges of the id and the morals of the superego. The ego represents the rational part of the mind and operates on what freud called the "reality principle". It often suppresses the urges of the id, the instinctual aspect of the mind, which is run by the pleasure principle as the moral centre of the mind. The superego acts as the mind's conscience. Freud believed that the hu...
