Pyschology

History of Pyschology: Eugene Utley, AJ Frazier, & Jackson Hunt

By jckshunt3
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    Wilhem Wundt

    Wilhem Wundt opened the first pyschology lab in 1879, considered the father of pyschollogy.
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    William James

    James was the first American pyschologist and made the first pyschology textbook.
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    G. Stanley Hall

    First American to recieve a Ph.D., opened the first pyschology lab in the United States, and the first president of the American Pyschology Association(APA).
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    Ivan Pavlov

    Studied classic conditioning.
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    Sigmund Freud

    Freud developed the first complete theory of pschoanalysis, focused on the unconscious and pyschoanalytic concepts.
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    Mary Whiton Calkins

    First woman to become president of the APA, and to meet the requirements for a Ph.D. in pyscholoy.
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    Margaret Washburn

    First woman to open a pychology lab inn the U.S., also the first woman to recieve a Ph.D. in pyschology, from Cornell University.
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    John Watson

    Created behavioralism(Father of Behavioralism), conducted the little Albert experiment

  • The study of pyschology began

  • Beginning of Structuralism and Biological Influences

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    Karen Horney

    Studied pyschodynamic perspective and social culture approach, also challenged the male bias.
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    Francis Sumner

    First African-American to recieve a doctoral degree in pyschology.
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    Inez Prosser

    First African-American woman to recieve a doctoral degree in pyschology.
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    Jean Piaget

    Studied developmental pyschology, cognitive development in children.

  • Beginning of Pyschoanalysis

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    B. F. Skinner

    Studie role of responses in learning, created the Skinner box, and studied operte conditioning(Consequences and Reinforcement).
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    Abraham Maslow

    Studied the Heirarchy of Needs, and self-factualiztion.
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    Roger Sperry

    Studied the two halves of he human brain, and the spliit brain phenomenon. Recieved Nobel Prize in 1981..

  • Beginning of Behaviorism

  • Beginning of Sociial-Cultural Perspective

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    Albert Bandura

    Studied social learning theory and imitation.

  • Beginning of Gestalt Pyschology

  • Humanistic Pyschology

  • Beginning of Cognitive Pyschology

  • Beginning of Functionalism