Historical Figures

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 1

holistic approach, understanding consciousness, father of psychology, established the first psychology lab in 1879, method: introspection, structualism - identify our conscious reflections, thoughts, and feelings (structure of the mind)

Question 2

William James

Answer 2

functionalist approach, environment impacted behavior, father of American psychology, pragmatism, why do we behave the way we do?, functionalism - purposes of mind and behavior, the mind is fluid and adaptable, stream of consciousness

Question 3

Mary Calkins

Answer 3

first female president of the APA (Edward Titchner took credit)

Question 4

Charles Darwin

Answer 4

evolution, natural selection, wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859

Question 5

John B. Watson

Answer 5

behaviorism (Little Albert experiment)

Question 6

Dorothea Dix

Answer 6

improved the treatment of people with mental illness

Question 7

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 7

first president of the APA, child development, eugenics movement

Question 8

Sigmond Freud

Answer 8

psychoanalysis, id-ego-superego, talk therapy

Question 9

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 9

classical conditioning, dog/ringing bell experiment

Question 10

Sean Piaget

Answer 10

cognitive development, sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, operational stage, formal operational stage

Question 11

Carl Rogers

Answer 11

self-actualization, humanistic, believed that people need to grow in an understanding and supportive environment

Question 12

B.F. Skinner

Answer 12

operant conditioning

Question 13

Margaret Floy Washburn

Answer 13

animal behavior, sensation and perception, second female president of the APA

Question 14

Charles Henry Turner

Answer 14

first Black American to conduct psychological research

Question 15

Inez Beverly Prosser

Answer 15

first Black American woman to receive a PhD in psychology