Famous people in the history of psych Flashcards
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Plato
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- Greek philosopher (387 BCE)
- Established one of the first schools in Greece
- nativist
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Wilhem Wundt
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- Founding father of psychology
- Opened the first psych experimental lab in 1879, Leipzig, Germany
- Taught the first class in scientific psychology
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Edward Titchener
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- Founder of Structuralism (1892)
- Structuralism is best demonstrated through introspection
- Coined the word ‘empathy’ in 1906
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William James
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- Founder of Functionalism (1890)
- Wrote the first comprehensive English textbook for psych
- believed in evolutional theory (for the consciousness/mind)
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John B. Watson
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- redefine psych as the science of observation
- launched behaviorism (1913)
- did the “Little Albert study” with Rosalie Rayner
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Sigmund Freud
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- created psychotherapy
- Austrian physician
- had a method of psychoanalysis
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Kurt Lewin
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- social psychologist
- founded social psychology
- an interdisciplinary effort to link brain activity to cognitive process
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Aristotle
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- Greek philosopher (335BCE)
- an empiricist
- studied under Plato
- taught Alexander the great
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Francis Bacon
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- English scientist “father of empiricism”
- described and popularized the scientific method (late 1500s)
- helped establish British colonies
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Rene Descartes
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- believed in Dualism
- developed a theory to explain reflex movements
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Charles Darwin
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- English naturalist
- 5 year voyage, found differences in same species
- Natural selection hypothesis
- published book in 1859
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G. Stanley Hall
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- student of Wundt
- founded the first formal psych lab in the US John Hopkins Uni, 1883)
- founded American Psychological Association (1892)
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Ivan Pavlov
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- 1905
- published famous studies on salivating dogs
- established principles of classical conditioning
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B.F. Skinner
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- 1938
- built on ‘Law of effect’
- shows that punishers and reinforcers work
- operant conditioning
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Max Werther
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-started gestalt psych (perception can be deceiving)1910
