Describe the accomplishments, failures, and ultimate fates of the major schools of thought in psychology.
Every school of thought shave been prospered, except that of the psychoanalysis, ultimately becoming the main stream psychology’s main part. Each of these schools suffered objections. When there was no need to proof anything, the movements and the revolutions were stopped and the new school of psychology became an established order.
To the evolution of the psychology, each school contributed a great deal of factors. Even the structuralism has also contributed much to the psychology’s evolution, even though; only a little imprint of structuralism is left on the psychology. However, the structuralism was the first school of thought and was an evolutionary school in itself, facing much opposition from the different individuals.
Functionalism too was not considered as the separate school of thought, until and unless it affected the American thought of psychology. In today’s date, like science, the American psychology is much like a profession. Its findings can be applied to all the modern life activities. The researchers of the Gestalts’ school were not able to convert the psychology in the way they thought.
However, it was considered as great success; since, it had a great impact on the psychology. The ability of individuals to gain and preserve the valid perceptions in the world evidently full of chaos is described by the Gestalt’s psychology. After the establishment of various schools, various conflicts arose within the members. It is clear how the psychoanalysis and the behaviorism got broke into two after their founders, Freud and Watson, respectively.
None of them won votes from all the members of their school. Each of the school was then divided into the sub fractions, having a state of competition to prove the facts. In the American psychology, by the end, two more movements were joined, namely the evolutionary psychology and the cognitive psychology.