Important Founders Of Psychology Flashcards
Hermann von Helmholtz
Measure the speed of neural impulses and explore the physiology of hearing and vision. Also develop the idea of physical and psychological realities
John Locke
Promoted empiricism which is the theory that all knowledge comes from sensory experience
Ernst Weber
Psycho physics
Gustav Fechner
Psychophysics
Wilhelm Wundt
Developed modern psychology and experimental psychology. Also engage students in a process called introspection, studied consciousness and develops the school of thought called voluntarism.
G. Stanley Hall
Established the first psychology laboratory in the United States. He also founded the American psychological Association.
James McKeen Cattell
First professor of psychology in United States. Worked on Individual differences.
Bradford Titchener
Brought Wundt’s psychology to America he also developed the school of structuralism which focused on the structure of mental processes
William James
Started the school thought: functionalism which was influenced by Darwins evolutionary theory. He also wrote the principles of psychology book
Max Wertheimer
Founder of the Gestalt psychology school of thought
Sigmund Freud
Developed the Psychoanalytic school of thought. also invented the modern psychotherapy.
John Watson
Developed the behavioral school of thought
B. F. Skinner
Coined the term operant conditioning which focuses on how voluntary behaviors are influenced by their consequences
Ivan Pavlov
Discovered the principles of classical conditioning which focuses on conditioning involuntary or automatic behaviors to various stimuli
Abraham Maslow
Develop the humanistic school of thought and made important contributions to the field of psychotherapy
