unit one psychologists Flashcards
study important figures in psychology unit one
Wilhelm Wundt
(1832-1920)
-created first psych lab
-performed first psych experiments
G. Stanley Hall
1844-1924
-student of Wundt
-first president of APA & doctorate in the US of psych
William James
1842-1910
-functionalist
-important professor and writer
“father of psychology”
Mary Whiton Calkins
1863-1930
-student of James
-first female president of APA
Margaret Floy Washburn
1871-1939
-wrote the animal mind
-first female to earn psych Ph.D.
Edward Titchner
1867-1927
-structuralist
-used introspection for research
Sigmund Freud
1856-1939
-created psychoanalytic psychology
-used dialogue with patients
John B. Watson
1878-1958
-dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as “the scientific study of observable behavior
-behavioralist
B. F. Skinner
1904-1990
-worked with watson
-provacative behavioralist
Dorothea Dix
1802-1887
-reformed humane therapy
-helped create first mental hospitals
Socrates & Plato
(469-399 BCE)
-mind is seperate from body
-knowledge is innate
Aristotle
384-322 BCE
-student of plato, disagreed
-derived principles from logic & data