AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first modern psychologist who was interested in the unconscious minds was
A
Wilhelm Wundt
B
Francis Galton
C
Sigmund Freud
D
Ivan Pavlov
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis and introduced influential theories such as: his ideas of the conscious and unconscious; the id, ego, and superego; dream interpretation; and psychosexual development.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sigmund Freud believed that understanding the unconscious mind was absolutely critical to understand conscious behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sigmund Freud was a late 19th and early 20th century neurologist. He is widely acknowledged as the father of modern psychology and the primary developer of the process of psychoanalysis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was the founder of psychoanalysis, a theory of how the mind works and a method of helping people in mental distress.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Freud (1915), the unconscious mind is the primary source of human behavior. Like an iceberg, the most important part of the mind is the part you cannot see. Our feelings, motives and decisions are actually powerfully influenced by our past experiences, and stored in the unconscious.

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