Important Figures

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 1

Father of psychology
Established first known lab

Question 2

William James

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Functionalism
Wrote first psychology book

Question 3

Edward Titchener

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Structuralism
One of Wundt’s students

Question 4

Ivan Pavlov

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accidentally started behavioralism

Question 5

John Locke

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tabula rosa - “blank slate”
children are born as blank slates and experiences shape people
against Plato & Descartes (believed knowledge was inborn)

Question 6

John B. Watson

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early behaviorialist

Question 7

Leta Stetter Hollingsworth

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published work on adolescents

Question 8

Carl Rogers

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helped establish humanistic perspective

Question 9

B. F. Skinner

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advocated operant behavioralism

Question 10

Leon Festinger

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publishes “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”

Question 11

Abraham Maslow

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publishes “Motivation and Personality,” developing concept of self-actualisation

Question 12

Jean Piaget

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influential developmental psychologist

Question 13

Elizabeth Loftus

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pioneering work on false memory and eyewitness testimonies

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Hermann Ebbinghaus & Max Wertheimer

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Gestalt psychology

Question 15

Margaret Floy Washburn

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first woman to receive doctorate in women’s issues

Question 16

Mary Calkins

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first female president of APA
studied memory

Question 17

Karen Horney Downey

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focuses on social and cultural factors behind personality
first woman to head psychology department at a state university

Question 18

Anna Freud

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major contributions to abnormal behaviors

Question 19

Mamie Phipps Clark

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pioneering work in how children of color grew to recognise racial differences