The People of Psychology

Question 1

Sigmund Freud

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud specialized in disorders and the nervous system. Emotions being suppressed into the unconscious mind can cause disorders. Psychodynamics and psychoanalysis.

Question 2

John B. Watson

Answer 2

Watson helped with the rise of behaviorism.

Question 3

Carl Rogers

Answer 3

Carl Rogers, along with Maslow, championed the free will of individuals to choose their own destinies as the humanistic perspective prospered in the 1950s and 1960s.

Question 4

Abraham Maslow

Answer 4

Abraham Maslow, along with Rogers, championed the free will of individuals to choose their own destinies as the humanistic perspective prospered in the 1950s and 1960s.

Question 5

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 5

First experimental psychology laboratory, objective introspection, and founded structuralism.

Question 6

Edward Titchener

Answer 6

Titchener was a student of Wundt and helped him create structuralism.

Question 7

William James

Answer 7

First professor of psychology. Natural selection. He thought thoughts and emotions had adaptive functions.