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Zeitgeist: Zeitgeist means spirit of the time. It is the dominant perspective or ideology of a time. In the early days of psychology the "zeitgeist" was Structuralism, and then Functionalism, and so on. Whatever the primary perspective of the day is/was, is considered the zeitgeist.