important people in psychology

Question 1

he made assumptions out of observation regarding human behavior. he believed that all beings, human included, have souls, which animate them.

Answer 1

aristotle

Question 2

supported the view that humans enter the world with an inborn store of knowledge.

Answer 2

rene descartes

Question 3

believed that at birth the human mind is a “tabula rasa” or a blank slate

Answer 3

john locke

Question 4

the author of the law of natural selection or theory of evolution

Answer 4

charles darwin

Question 5

he was concerned with the study of individual differences.
father of mental tests

Answer 5

francis galton

Question 6

german physicians who started experimenting with behavior through scientific methodologies

Answer 6

ernst weber, gustav fechner, herman von helmholtz

Question 7

a student of wundt’s who established what many consider as the first american psychologist laboratory at john’s hopkins university in 1883

Answer 7

g. stanley hall

Question 8

a german who reported on the first experiments on memory

Answer 8

hermann ebbinghaus