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Aristotle
Aristotle was one of the first contributors to the study of psychology. He studied the concept of the soul and the three different parts that make it up. He wrote a treatise called "On the Soul" which explores those three parts: the rational soul, the vegetative soul, and the sensitve soul. Date is BC, discard month/day -
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Plato
Plato was the teacher of Aristotle. He was one of the main founding fathers of Psychology. He remains a famous philosopher, who contributed many maxims of life that are still referred to today. He wrote on logic, ethics, and philosophy as a whole.- Date is in BC *
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Socrates
One of Socrates main contributions was his Socratic Method. This influenced the "western thought," epistemology, and logic. Socrates was a Greek Athenian philosopher with views that are still looked back on today.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon is known as a father of psychology. He was one of the first to support the idea of Empiricism. Empiricism is the idea that science derives from our several senses, it also supports the idea that science can be developed through experience and observations. Bacon had a strong influence over the world of pyschology and science. -
Rene Descartes
Descartes was famous for his thoughts on moral philosophy. He supported the idea that morals were rooted from Metaphysics. He defends ideas such as free will and where men stand in the ecosystem. -
John Locke
Locke studied the concept of property in two senses. He saw it as a literal way, meaning material things, and as well as a broad aspect, such as human interest. Locke believed that every human has a right to property and that it comes from manual labor. He also continued to study human nature and how it coincides with politics. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was the mother of the first set of mental insitutions. Through Congress, she developed the system of aslyums for mentally disturbed patients. She created housing for the indigent insane through several government legislatures. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin is the reigning father of evolution. He believed that we, as humans, evolved from common anecestors. He also supported the idea of natural selection, where species fight for existence in their ecosystems. Darwin published a book called On the Origin of Species, which went against the "normal" scientific beliefs in his day. -
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt is still known today as a man who helped psychology into it's modern era. He is considered to be the "father of experimental psychology," He influenced other psychologists with his ideals on Structuralism. -
William James
William James created the great work, "Principles of Psychology," which is still referred to today in the study of psychology. He studied the science of human's emotions and their reactions to experiences. Reactions are percieved to be explanations of emotions, according to William James. -
G. Stanley Hall
G. Stanley Hall focused on the development of children and the idea of psychology itself. He founded the American Journal of Psychology in 1887 and five years later became the president of American Psychological Association. He studied psychology in children and religion, composing a book called "Jesus the Christ in the Light of Psychology." -
E. B. Titchener
E. B. Titchener was a main implicator of the introspection method. He was influenced by the works of Wundt. Titchener believed thoughts were simliar to the structures of chemicals. He believed they could be broken down and split into their own components. He tried to prove this theory through a variety of experiments. -
Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn was a breakthrough psychologist in the 20th century. She was the first woman to earn a PHd in Psychology. She went on to reserach topics such as motor theory development and animal behavior. -
Mary Whiton Calkins
Mary Whiton Calkins was a major contributor to psychology. She supported the study of self-psychology. Self-psychology was the extensive study of the self and how it is constantly conciously acting. She continued on to invent the paired-associate tecnhnique. She was named the first woman president of the American Psychology Association. -
Rosalie Rayner
Rosalie Rayner participated in an experiment as an assistant to John B. Watson. The study was done at John Hopkins University, where they were testing the empirical theory among the development of humans. This experiment was referred to as the Little Albert experiment.
