History of Psychology

By ElijahtheCoolest

  • "Father of Psychology"

    Wilhelm Wundt is born and eventually founds the first psychological experimentation lab in Germany.

  • "The Guy Whose Famous"

    Sigmund Freud is arguably the most famous psychologists known for his theory that human behavior is not conscious but instead governed by unconscious memories, thoughts, and urges. He is also famous for having a lot of his statements being debunked by the rest of the psychological community.

  • "The Dog Guy"

    Ivan Pavlov was actually a physiologist who researched conditioning reflexes and classic conditioning. His findings contributed profoundly influenced the psychological studies of behaviorism.

  • "The Rat Guy"

    B. F. Skinner was a strong advocate of behaviorism. His experiments and techniques are still used today. Most his experiments had animal components.

  • "The Guy Who Learned About How Children Work"

    Jean Piaget developed a theory of cognitive development. He pioneered research of child rearing and child psychological development.

  • "The Dominatrix Guy"

    Stanley Milgram conducted famously controversial experiments, notably The Milgram Experiment. Whose aim must to better understand human response to being commanded and controlled in manic states.

  • "The Guy Who Found Out How people Are Supposed to Live"

    Erik Erikson focused on human development over lifespans. Childhood, adulthood, and old age. He founded the theory of psychological development.
    His theory consists of 8 stages in psychological development. He coined the phrase "identity crisis'.

  • "The Social Guy"

    Albert Bandura studied the process of social learning and developed social learning theories and stressed the importance of observational learning.
    He focused on child social learning and his observational learning theories in youth are applied today.

  • "The Prison Warden Guy"

    Philip G. Zimbardo, a professor at Stanford studied behavior tendencies and is famous for his Stanford Prison Experiment. Now vied as very con-traversal for the physical and emotional treatment of the "prisoners".

  • "The Emotional Guy"

    Lisa Fieldsman Barrett is responsible for many commonly used cognitive emotional theories. She is one of the most cited nuero psychologist due to her studies of cognitive emotional behavior and its relation to both the unconscious and passed experiences.