The Zeitgeist of Contemporary Psychology

PSYCHOLOGY Name: Institution: Course Code: Date: The Zeitgeist of Contemporary Psychology Zeitgeist has an impact on psychology as evidenced in the development of psychology as a science in the 20th century. The early psychologists of the 20th century centered their approach to the subject of behaviorism either structurally or functionally. Behaviorism flourished because of American pragmatism approach to psychologyCITATION Qic05 \l 1033 (Qicheng & Hang, 2005). Behaviorism revolved around psychodynamic psychology which was fronted by Freud and expanded by his followers, i.e., Skinner, Watson among others. Later, the cognitive development psychology cropped up which set the base for later zeitgeist to the subject. It revolved around egocentrism, scaffolding and it showed the narrow approach of earlier psychologists who centered their approach on behaviorism. Many psychologists of the time pegged their ideas on the study of the behavior or cognitive psychology. Near mid-20th century, a psychologist who favored behaviorism shaped through the environment and those who favored psychodynamic psychology centered on mental unconscious processes to explain behavior ...