Important People

Question 1

Willhelm Wundt

Answer 1

German psychologist who established the first psychology laboratory in the 1880s

Question 2

Plato

Answer 2

student of Socrates who believed in dualism and developed the theory of ideal forms

Question 3

Rene Descartes

Answer 3

dualist who believed in the existence of ‘animal spirits’

Question 4

Charles Darwin

Answer 4

developed theory of natural selection

Question 5

Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, B.F Skinner

Answer 5

The Behavorists

believed that all behavior could be shaped through conditioning

Question 6

Aristotle

Answer 6

Greek philosopher who believed that mind and body are one and the observation is key.

Question 7

John Locke

Answer 7

English philosopher who believed the mind was a ‘blank state’ at birth

Question 8

Edward Bradford Titchener

Answer 8

founder of structuralism who used introspection with his subjects

Question 9

Margaret Floyd Washburn

Answer 9

first woman to receive a psychology doctorate; author of The Animal Mind

Question 10

Mary Whiton Calkins

Answer 10

student of William James who became first female president of the APA

Question 11

William James

Answer 11

‘father of American psychology’ and pragmatic functionalist

Question 12

Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow

Answer 12

major humanistic psychologists who believed in the concept of self-actualization

Question 13

Sir Francis Bacon

Answer 13

championed empiricism and the modern scientific method in 1600s England

Question 14

Socrates

Answer 14

Greek philosopher who taught through questioning

Question 15

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 15

American student of Wundt who became first president of the APA

Question 16

Sigmund Freud

Answer 16

Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalysis approach