-
Plato
More than 2,000 years ago, Plato (347 B.C.), recorded his teachers advice: "Know thyself." This has remained a motto pf psychology study ever since. Socrates suggested that we can know about ourselves by examining our thoughts and feelings. -
Aristotle
Aristotle(348-322 B.C.) was one of Platos students, a Greek philosopher. He raised many questions about human behavior that are still discussed. Aristotle outlined the laws of associationism. he believed one such universal law that humans are motivated to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. -
Hippocrates
Hippocrates (377 b.c.) suggested that people might have abnormalities in the brain. -
Wilhelm Wundt
Wihelm Wundt (1832-1920) and his students founded a field of experimental psychology that came to be known as structuralism. They were concerned with discovering the basic elements of conciousness. -
William James
William james (1842-1910) that concious experience cannot be broken down as structuralist believed. James maintanted that experience isa continious "stream of conciousness." -
John B. Watson
John B. Watson (1878-1958) Although he agreed with the functionalist focs on the importance of learning, he believed that it was unscientific to study a construct like conciousness (animals). -
B.F. Skinner
B.F. Skinner(1904-1990) introduced the concept of reinforcement. It showed that when an animal is rewarded for performing an action it is more likely to do that action again. -
Sigmud Frued
Sigmund Freud(1856-1939), was the most famous physician of the early psychologist. The shool of thought that he founded, caled psychoanalysis, emphasizes the importance of unconcious motives nd internal conflicts in determining human behavior. -
Period: to
Hsitory of Psychology
