Renowned People in the History of Psychology Flashcards
The teacher of Plato.
Socrates
Believed that human beings are born with complete knowledge within our eternal “soul” and that character and intelligence are inherited and inborn.
Plato
Identified the heart as “the most important organ in the body,” and the first to form according to his observations of chick embryos.
Aristotle
Believed that emotions resulted from different combinations or levels or changes in the amount of the four basic body fluids — the yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood.
Hippocrates
“Mind is a blank slate at birth that most knowledge comes from experience.”
John Locke
“Discerned intelligence, moral characters, and other basic personality traits from shapes and bumps on a person’s skull.”
Franz Josef Gall
“Nerves are hollow tubes through which impulse flow.”
Rene Descartes
Father of Scientific/Experimental Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Put up the 1st American Psychology Laboratory in Johns Hopkins University.
Granville Stanley Hall
Reported the first experiments on human memory.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Published the book entitled “Principles of Psychology”.
William James
Conducted the first experiment on animal learning called Instrumental Conditioning.
E.L. Thorndike
Introduced the Psychoanalytic Theory.
Sigmund Freud
Devised the first Intelligence Test.
Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon
Published classic studies on animal learning called Classical Conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
