... that psychology should be the study of cognitive processes. During the same period, the structural school of psychology was gaining support. The Structuralists held that psychology should be the study of the conscious experience as well as the structures that are concerned with the conscious. Additional other schools formed, most noticeably because of there discontent with the views that were available. The schools that were developed offered alternative views on the subject of psychology. Predominantly, these included Freud's psychoanalytic school, Watson's behaviourist school and a German school known as the Gestalt. Psychologists' around at the time tended to associate themselves with the particular school that they believed was accurate for explaining psychological phenomena. However, in contemporary psychological study, the original schools no longer exists, instead their contributions are evident in modern psychological approaches. Principally, because of the heterogeneity of psychological subject matter and individual differences, advocating one particular school became ...

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