Module 1- The Story of Psychology (Researchers)

Question 1

Charles Darwin

Answer 1

Darwin argued that natural science shapes behaviors as well as bodies

Question 2

Margaret Floy Washburn

Answer 2

The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D.

Synthesized animal behavior research in the Animal Mind.

Question 2

Humanistic psychology

Answer 2

historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people

Question 3

John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner

Answer 3

Working with Rayner, Watson championed psychology as the science of behavior and demonstrated conditioned responses on a baby who became famous as “Little Albert”

Question 4

B.F. Skinner

Answer 4

A leading behaviorist

Rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior

Redefined psychology as “the scientific study of observable behaior”

Question 5

Sigmund Freud

Answer 5

The controversial ideas of this famed personality theorist and therapist have influenced humanity’s self-understanding

(Freudian Psychology)

Question 6

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 6

Established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Conducted experiment, machine measured the time lag between people’s hearing a ball hit a platform and their pressing a telegraph key

Question 8

Edward Bradford Titchener

Answer 8

Used introspection (looking inward) to search for the mind’s structural elements.

Question 9

William James

Answer 9

Functionalist: consciousness serves as a function

Considered evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings.

Believed thinking developed because it was adaptive

Mentored Mary Whiton Calkins

Question 10

Mary Whiton Calkins

Answer 10

Mentored by William James

Denied degree from Harvard because of being a woman

First female president of American Psychological Association (APA)