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Socrates was Plato's teacher. Both of them believed that the mind is separated from the body, and that we are born with knowledge, rather than acquire it as we grow.
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Plato taught him. He analyzed data, observed, and believed that knowledge is acquired as we grow.
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Bacon believed that the mind percieves patterns and prefers order & equality in nature.
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Rene dissected animals and came up with basis for nerves. He believed that "animal spirits" connected the brain & muscles, and coursed through hollow passage ways we call nerves.
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He stated that the human mind is a blank slate (tabula rasa) , and we gain knowledge as we grow (which contributed to the ideas of empiricism)
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Darwin was interested in & contributed to evolutionary psychology and child/infant development.
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Wilhelm conducted what is considered to be the first actual experiment in psychology. This experiment measured how long humans responded to a sound, and how long it took for them to press a button upon hearing the sound.
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Dorothea was a humanatarian and helped to change the way mentally ill people were treated in mental hospitals.
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Hall was the first American to get a degree in Psychology, and he was the first President of the APA. He was particularly interested in child growth & evolutionary psychology.
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He believed that bodily functions (such as thinking, smelling, sight, etc) were a result of adaptation. He was a functionalist (exploration of consciousness). He also lectured and taught psychology, and taught in Mary Calkins when women had few rights.
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Titchener came up with structuralism, which focuses on the structural aspects of the mind, and why people feel & react the way they do. However, it was hard to measure/test this, so structuralism started to fade.
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She was the first women to actually earn a degree in Psychology, but Harvard refused to give her the degree. She went on to become the first female president of the APA (American Psychological Association).
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Raynor worked with John B. Watson and was interested in conducting experiments to study psychology, especially child development.
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Washburn was the first woman to officially recieve a Ph.D in Psychology, she was also thev 2nd woman to be president of the APA. She wrote the book "The Animal Mind" and was interested in behavior and using experiments.
