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German born and the first scientist to be referred to as a Psychologist. Wundt viewed psych as a scientific study of conscious experience, and he believed that the goal of psychology was to identify components of consciousness and how those components combined to result in our conscious experience.
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American scientist who helped establish functional psych
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helped establish psych as a discipline and known as the father of American psych with his theories of functionalism
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Ivan Pavlov studied a form of learning behavior called a conditioned reflex, in which an animal or human produced an unconscious response to a stimulus that the experimenter associated with the original stimulus.
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- one of the most influential and well-known figures in psychology’s history
- developed the psychoanalytic theory
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helped establish functional psych and is a prominent american scholar
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Famous book by Wilhelm Wundt published in 1873.
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Influential American psychologist. He thought that the study of the consciousness was flawed and focused directly on observable behavior and try to bring that behavior under control. (Behaviorism)
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He establishes this psych lab at the Uni. at Leipzig in 1879 where he and his students conducted experiments. Ex. reaction times.
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(late 1800s) Before this time, the workings of the mind were considered under the auspices of philosophy.
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one of 3 German psychologists who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
- credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt principles. -
one of 3 German psychologists who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
- credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt principles. -
one of 3 German psychologists who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
- credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt principles. -
In 1894, Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman awarded the doctoral degree in psychology. She wrote The Animal Mind: A Textbook of Comparative Psychology, and it was the standard in the field for over 20 years.
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John Dewey's paper that is considered the first major work of functionalism
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like Watson, Skinner was a behaviorist and concentrated on how behavior was affected by its consequences.
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American psychologist best known for the hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior
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1920, Francis Cecil Sumner was the first African American to receive a PhD in psychology.
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Ulric Neisser published the first textbook entitled Cognitive Psychology, which served as a core text in cognitive psychology courses around the country
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It seeks to advance the scientific orientation of psychology. Its founding resulted from disagreements between members of the scientific and clinical branches of psychology within the APA.