Unit 1 - People

Question 1

Wilhem Wundt

Answer 1

started first psychological laboratory
established idea of structuralism

Question 2

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 2

Wundt’s student
established first US psych lab at John Hopkins
structuralism

Question 3

Edward Bradford Titchener

Answer 3

Wundt’s student
introduced structuralism

Question 4

William James

Answer 4

philosopher-psychologist
believed in functionalism, inspired by darwin
“thinking evolved because it was adaptive”

Question 5

Charles Darwin

Answer 5

natural selection
evolutionary theorist

Question 6

Mary Whiton Calkins

Answer 6

psychology’s first women
studied at Harvard but was ultimately denied her PhD because of her gender
first female APA president

Question 7

Margaret Floy Washburn

Answer 7

first women to receive a PhD in psychology
wrote “The Animal Mind”
second female APA president

Question 8

John B. Watson

Answer 8

created behaviorism (external) in response to Titchener’s structuralism (internal)

Question 9

B. F. Skinner

Answer 9

believed in behaviorism

Question 10

Sigmund Freud

Answer 10

psychoanalytic psychology - emphasized how unconscious mind and childhood affect behavior

Question 11

Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

Answer 11

humanistic psychologists
believed that behaviorism and psychodynamic psychology too limiting

Question 12

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 12

pioneered study of learning (educational psychology)

Question 13

Jean Piaget

Answer 13

last century’s most influential observer of children
developmental psychology

Question 14

Dorothea Dix

Answer 14

pioneer of therapy
reformer that led the way to humane treatment of those with psychological disorders