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• Psychologists pick and choose theories to use depending on the situation and the client
• Variety of methods of the other waves

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• John B Watson
• People started to ignore how you feel inside at this time period
• All that mattered was how you acted
• If you they could change your behavior, who cares about how you feel
• Social appearance mattered more than self expression.
• Behaviorism- the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
• Behavior comes from society and what it does to you
• Conditioning people with fears

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• Sigmund Freud used cocaine to help patients with their problems.
• During this time period people believed that most of your feelings come from a hidden place in your mind called your unconscious.
• We protect ourselves from our real feeling by using defense mechanisms
• Psychoanalysis- a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
• Defense Mechanisms- a mental process (e.g., repression or projection) initiated, typically unconsciously, to avoid conscious conflict or anxiety.

• Things slip out when you say certain words which expose your inner drives

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• William Wundt started the first psych lab (structuralism)
• William James wrote The Principles of Psychology and discussed functionalism
• Functionalism- belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.
• These ideas don't have much impact
• Introspection- the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.
• Structuralism- a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.

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• Max Wertheimer and others focused not on how we feel, but how we experience the world
• The whole of an experienced can be more than the sum of its parts
• Gestalt- an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. a different way to understand emotions