Earlier within the semester we have touched basis to learn about a topic on cognition and basically the beginning of psychology. We learned how science has made its contribution and how we’ve come to have different forms and theories of psychology today. We have ran into, Behaviorist to Gesalts, to Clinical to Cognition and how we believe the brain and people may view things. Within my short exert I will touch a little more on this topic add more of an different aspects.
Although, we have talked about cognition and it’s development into the world one person we did not mention at all is, Sigmund Freud and his contributions. We all know that his work may be controversial and discredited but that should not disregarded to the fact that he was a great break for many psychologists. Especially within the topic of behaviorist when it comes to why his clients performed the way did not feel the need to speak about him as a topic, regardless of his work used taken into consideration.
Sigmund Freud was the first psychologist to actually develop how a person felt but on a psycho sexual level. He believed that children all before the age of 5 basically understood different levels and experienced particular walks of life to prepare them for the world ahead. Nevertheless, we all know why Freud’s ways were questioned because children did not just develop on a psycho sexual way and his idea could not be fully credited as a real phenomenon to say the least this is how children develop in life. That’s where other psychologist/scientist came along to “tweak” and alter his idea and involve but mainly view it from a different perspective.
Behaviorist came into play to portray that humans did not just learn from sex but from behavior and from their environments as well. We came to grasps from John Locke that we were clean slates and that we experience what we do and develop solely how we are and it forms us then But nevertheless, we have used and encountered different forms to describe how a person can be. We have learned from personality, to neurological, to behavioral to cognition, each providing in their own way how a person can be broken down and described as in genres.
Overall, cognition has come a long way and has originated from many ideas but their are some people to attribute for that. Personally, there should just be recognition for doors that were presented and opened and used but that is just my feelings. I may just be one person but I will guarantee that if asked by another they will agree Sigmund Freud had a part whether mentioned in the text or not.