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427 BCE
Plato
Known for his ideas of Theory of Forms
Died around 347 BC -
322 BCE
Aristotle
Tutored Alexander the Great
Died around 322 BC -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Wrote Virginia Colony
Died 9 April 1926 -
René Descartes
Known for Descartes' moral philosophy
Died 11 February 1650 -
John Locke
Founded idea of Tabula Rosa
Died 28 October 1704 -
Franz Mesmer
Known for his study of Animal Magnetism
Died 5 March 1815 -
Franz Gall
Founder of Phrenology
Died 22 August 1828 -
Thomas Young
Known for the Wave Theory of Light
Died 10 May 1829 -
Ernst Weber
Helped with the foundation of Experimental Psychology
Died 26 January 1878 -
John Stuart Mill
Known for his look at Political Philosophy and ethics
Died 8 May 1873 -
Charles Darwin
Known for the ideas of natural selection
Died 19 April 1882 -
Wilhelm Wundt
Known for helping with the foundation of Experimental Psychology
Died 31 August 1920 -
William James
known for his ideas in Free will and the Philosophy of religion
Died 26 August 1910 -
Friedrich Nietzsche
Known for his idea of Apollonian and Dionysian
Died 25 August 1900 -
Hermann Rorschach
Known for the Rorschach Test
Died 1 April 1922 -
Ivan Pavlov
Founded Classical Conditioning
Died 27 February 1936 -
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Known for his work with memory and the Forgetting (Ebbinghaus) curve
Died 26 February 1906 -
Sigmund Freud
Known for his work with Psychoanalysis
Died 23 September 1939 -
Alfred Binet
In 1894 he was the director of Laboratory of Experimental Psychology
Died 18 October 1911 -
Mary Calkins
In 1905 she was elected president of the American Psychological Association and American Philosophical Association in 1918
Died 26 February 1930 -
Edward Titchener
Known for the foundation of Structuralism
Died 3 August 1927 -
Alfred Adler
Founded Alderian Psychology in 1912 and died 28 May 1937 -
Margaret Floy Washburn
Known for her study on the Animal Mind and being the past president of the American Psychological Association
Died 29 October 1939 -
Edward Thorndike
Known as the Father of Modern Educational Psychology
Died 9 August 1949 -
Carl Jung
Known for Analytical psychology
Died 6 June 1961 -
John B. Watson
Founded behaviorism
Died 25 September 1958 -
Alfred Kinsey
Known for his contributions to sexology
Died 25 August 1952 -
Jean Piaget
Known for his work with Constructivism
Died 16 September 1980 -
Lev Vygotsky
Known for his work wit Cultural- historical Psychology
Died 11 June 1934 -
Carl Rogers
Known for Client-Centered Therapy
Died 4 February 1987 -
Erik Erikson
Known for his Theory on social development
Died 12 May 1944 -
Benjamin Spock
Known for Psychoanalysis on children to find there needs
Died 15 March 1998 -
B.F. Skinner
Known for Operant Conditioning
Died 18 August 1990 -
Harry Harlow
Known for studying monkeys behavior with and without a mother figure
Died 6 December 1981 -
Abraham Maslow
Known for Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Died 8 June 1970 -
Albert Bandura
He is known for his work with Social cognitive theory
He is currently still alive -
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Known for the Kübler-Ross model "5 Stages of grief"
Died 24 August 2004 -
Lawrence Kohlberg
Known for Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development
Died 19 January 1987 -
Noam Chomsky
In 1959 he published a review of B.F. Skinner
Still Currently alive -
Philip Zimbardo
Known for the Stanford Prison Experiment
Still Currently alive -
Stanley Milgram
Known for the Milgram experiment
Died 20 December 1984
