Exam #1 People (Learning) Flashcards
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
Established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Who was G. Stanley Hall?
Established the first formal U.S. psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.
Who was Edward Bradford Titchener?
Used introspection to search for the mind’s structural elements.
Who was William James?
Teacher-writer who authored an imporant 1890 psychology text. Mentored Mary Whiton Calkins.
Who was Mary Whiton Calkins?
A pioneering memory researcher and the first woman to be president of the American Psychological Association.
Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?
First woman to receive a psychology Ph.D. Synthesized animal behavior in The Animal Mind in 1908.
Who was John B. Watson?
Championed psychology as the scientific study of behavior (“Little Albert”).
Who was B.F. Skinner?
Leading behaviorist who rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior (operant conditioning).
Who was Sigmund Freud?
Famed personality theorist and therapist who founded psychoanalytic psychology.
Who were Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?
Founded humanistic psychology.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
Russian psychologist who pioneered the study of learning (classical conditioning).
Who was Jean Piaget?
Swiss biologist who pioneered the observation of children.
Who was Edward L. Thorndike?
Psychologist who created the law of effect.
Who was John Garcia?
Psychologist who studied preparedness (taste aversion).
Who was Robert Rescorla?
Psychologist who discovered that animals can learn the predictability of an event.
