Important People Flashcards
Willhelm Wundt
Established the first psychology laboratory at the university of Leipzig Germany
Father of psychology
G Stanley Hall
Wundts American student.
First American to earn a Ph.D in psychology
first president of the American Psychology Association (APA) at John Hopkins University
ESTABLISHED FIRST PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH LABORATORY IN THE US
Edward Bradford Titchener
Joined the Cornell university faculty and INTRODUCED STRUCTURALISM
Used introspection to search for the minds structural elements
William James
Philosopher psychologist.
Studied down to earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits and moment to moment streams of consciousness.
FOUNDED FUNCTIONALISM
Charles Darwin
Evolutionary Theorist
The father of Evolution (Natural Selection)
Wrote “On the origin of species”
Mary Whiton Calkins
The first women to be president of the American Psychological Association
Harvard refused her Ph.D
Pioneering memory researcher
Margaret Floy Washburn
The first women to receive a psychology Ph.D.
Washburn synthesized animal behavior research in The Animal Mind
John B Watson
Pioneer (first to study or develop something) for Behaviorism
FOUNDER OF BEHAVIORISM
observable behaviors, not mental processes
B.F Skinner
Leading behaviorist rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior
Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by training pigeons and rats
Sigmund Freud
The controversial ideas of his famed personality theorist and therapist have influenced humanity’s self understanding
FOUNDER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Carl Rogers
Founded Humanistic Psychologists
Humanistic psychologists who developed CLIENT-CENTERED therapy and stressed the importance of acceptance, genuines and empathy in fostering HUMAN GROWTH
Ivan Pavlov
Pioneered the study of learning, was a Russian physiologist
EXPERIMENTS ON DOGS
Jean Piaget
The last century’s most influential observer of children
Introduced a stage theory of cognitive developmental
Swiss biologist
Dorothea Dix
American advocate on behalf of the mentally ill.
Created the first ever mental asylums during the civil war
Abraham Maslow
Humanistic psychologist known for his “heirarchy of needs” and the concept of self actualization
Pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with psychological needs that must be satisfied before high level safety
