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Traditional psychology includes

Traditional psychology includes: constructivism psychology, functionalism psychology, behavioral psychology, gestalt psychology and psychoanalysis.

1, constructivist psychology

Constructivist psychology mainly studies the structure of consciousness, and holds that the content of consciousness can be decomposed into basic elements. After breaking psychology down into these basic elements, we can find out the relationship and laws between them one by one, so as to understand the essence of psychology.

2. Functionalism psychology

Both functionalism psychology and constructivism psychology advocate the study of consciousness, but constructivism psychology advocates the study of the structure of consciousness, while functionalism psychology emphasizes the study of the function of consciousness.

3. behavioral psychology

The representative figure of behavioral psychology is American psychologist Watson. Watson believes that psychology, as a science, can only study observable behavior.

4.gestalt psychology

While behavioral psychology appeared in the United States, another schools of psychology, Gestalt Psychology, appeared in Germany. Gestalt psychology focuses on how people know things at the level of perception. As a school, it attached importance to psychological experiments, and the research results were very influential at that time, especially some experimental results about perception, called Gestalt Perception Law, which has occupied a certain important position in psychology so far.

5. Psychoanalysis School

Psychoanalysis school came into being in Europe in the late19th century, and its founder was Austrian psychiatrist Freud. This theory mainly comes from Freud's practice of treating mental illness, attaches importance to the analysis of abnormal human behavior and emphasizes that psychology should study unconscious phenomena.