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Psychoanalytic Behaviorism
1889 - 1919
Psychology during the 1889-1919 period fused rigorous laboratory methods with explorations of unconscious processes and dream phenomena. Experimental and physiological approaches prioritized measurement, neural mechanisms, and psychophysiology, while clinical orientations broadened psychology into psychiatry-like science addressing everyday trauma and mental disease concepts, treating dream data as valid data sources. Learning, conditioning, and habit formation emerged as central theoretical engines, linking conditioned reflexes and early learning research to broader behavioral change. Cognition, consciousness, self, and dream/identity processes framed higher mental life and social cognition, guiding theory and method.
• Experimental and physiological psychology converge on measurement, neural mechanisms, and psychophysics as core methods, spanning reflex conditioning, animal and human studies, and early psychophysiology [5], [7], [9], [10], [12], [15].
• Clinical and psychopathological orientations recast psychology as psychiatry-integrated science, addressing everyday trauma, mental disease concepts, and dream/psychic phenomena as data sources [1], [4], [18], [20].
• Learning, conditioning, and habit formation drive core theoretical frames, linking conditioned reflexes, pharmacology of learning, dog training, and chess learning to general behavioral change [5], [8], [15], [16], [17].
• Cognition, consciousness, self, and dream/identity processes frame higher mental life and social cognition, with studies on consciousness, testimony, individuality, and dream interpretation guiding theory [2], [4], [11], [19].
Dynamic Systems Psychology
1920 - 1949
Cognitive Behavioral Synthesis
1950 - 1961
Humanistic-Behavioral Psychology
1962 - 1968
Social-Cognitive Learning Era
1969 - 1975
Social-Cognitive Behavioral Change
1976 - 1989
Cognitive Motivational Self-Regulation
1990 - 1996
Self-Regulation and Motivation Paradigm
1997 - 2003
Dual-Process Social Cognition
2004 - 2010
Emotion Regulation Neurocognition
2011 - 2024