Darwin
- 1859 Darwin wrote: On the Origin of Species
William James
William James
-Wrote the first psychology textbook, may have had the first psychology laboratory in America circa 1876 ,Interested in the functions of consciousness, established ‘functionalism’ as a school of thought in psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Wundt
- Created first pyschology lab in 1879 in Germany
- Considered the "Father of Psychology"
Sigmund Freud
Freud
- Discovered psycholoanalysis after noticing the hypnosis does not work on neurotic patients. Was known as the ‘talking cure’ before psycholoanalysis
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Did the bulk of his research on physcology digestion
Developed the surgical method of the (chronic) experiement with the use of Fistuals which allowed various organs to be observed.
Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn
-first woman to obtain her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1894.
-In 1908 she published The Animal Mind, a compilation of experimental studies exploring the existence of conscious processes such as learning and attention in animals.
John Watson
John Watson
-Established 'Radical Behaviorism'
-Believed you could condition people to engage in/stop certain behaviors
-Interested in behavior and its precise measurment rather than 'consciousness'
Mary Cover Jones
Mary Cover Jones
-Wrote a paper in 1924 which earned her the title of 'mother of behavior therapy'
-used conditioning procedures to eliminate a child's fears
Erik Erickson
Erk Erickson
Created eight psychosocial stages in which humans develop throughout their entire lifespan. This is also known as the developmental theory.
Harry Harlow
Harry Harlow
Provided a new understanding for human behavior by studing monkeys, he did a wire/ cloth "mother" monkeys study, in which he noticed how much the infant mokey needed the mother for food and care.
B.F. Skinner
B.f. Stinner
Radical behaviorist that Published his actual ideas on Child-rearing in Waldon two . He came up with the idea of behaviorist free daycare
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers
- the notion of self or Self-Concept. This is defined as "the organised, consistent set of perceptions and beliefs about oneself".
-a person who has high self-worth, that is, has confidence and positive feelings about him or her self, faces challenges in life, accepts failure and unhappiness at times, and is open with people.
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
-Conducted the imfamous Milgram experiment,a series of social psychology experiments, while at Yale
-This experiment measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.
Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky
Social development theory Study the way people act and interact in shared experiences.
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow
Study the behavior of people. The saftey needs and the loving and belonging needs and esteem and self accuzation are all needs that he studied. He also studied with monkeys
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
Belived that aggresion is develpoped in what is called behavior modeling. He believed that individuals didn't inheriet violent tendencies . He argued for his belief. He studied on how people can have a better self esteem.
