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 who used introspection for research
Sigmund Freud
1856-1939
created psychoanalytic psychology and used dialogue with patients
John B. Watson
1878-1958
behavioralist who dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as “the scientific study of observable behavior
B. F. Skinner
1904-1990
provacative behavioralist who worked with watson
Dorothea Dix
1802-1887
reformed humane therapy and helped create the first mental hospitals
Socrates & Plato
(469-399 BCE)
said mind is seperate from body and knowledge is innate
Aristotle
384-322 BCE
student of plato, disagreed, derived principles from logic & data