There are many different types of school of thought: functionalism, structuralism, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and humanism, cognitive, biological, and evolutionary. ... Structuralism was most severely criticized for its primary method, introspection. As structuralism was losing its influence in the United States, a new school of psychology called functionalism was taking place. ... This new school of psychology was called behaviorism. ... Behaviorism soon became the most influential school of thought in American psychology and remained so until the 1960s. ...

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Titchener named the first school of though of psychology structuralism. ... Introspection was highly used in structuralism, and came to be criticized for it's inconsistency in subject responses. ... Watson is a psychologist who created a new school of psychology called behaviorism. ... Behaviorism is still of great predominance in psychology today because of the work of Skinner. ... Humanistic psychology became known as the third force in the field, besides behaviorism and psychoanalysis. ...

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