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wilhelm wundt
Germany philosopher and physiologist. father of psychology. he study the human mind and behavior -
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william james
first American psychologist and author of the first psychology textbook. known for contributing to functionalism -
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ivan pavlov
Russian physiologist and learning theorist. he was interested in physiology and natural sciences. famous for the discovery of classical conditioning in which learning occurs through association. interest in observable behavior -
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sigmund freud
Austrian physician, founder of psychoanalysis, a controversial theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and action to unconscious motives. he relied on self-reported. -
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edward b. titchener
one of Wilhelm's student. founder of structuralism. conducted experiment by analyzinging the intensity, clarity and quality of its basic parts. -
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john b. watson
founder of behaviorism. the theory that psychology should only study observable behavior, not mental process -
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jean piaget
swiss psychology. best known for the his theory of cognitive development that looked at how children develop intellectually throughout childhood -
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carl rogers
humanistic psychologist who developed client- centered therapy and stressed the importance of acceptance, genuineness, and empathy in fostering human growth. -
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b.f skinner
American psychologist. he study behaviorism. he developed the fundamental principles and techniques of operant conditioning and devised ways to apply them in real life. -
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Abraham Maslon
an american psychologist. founder of humanist psychology. his needs suggested that people have a number of needs. he saw human beings needs arrange like a ladder. -
Walter Mischel
walter is a personality theorist that argued that our personality traits are not stable depending on the situation we are in.he created the marshallow test -
Elizabeth F. Loftus ( important person in history between 1940 and today )
Elizabeth is an amercan cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory. she focused on the idea that memories are not always right that same memories can be false memories created by brain -
Robert Sternberg ( important person)
Robert is an american psychologist and psychometrican. created a theory celled triarchic. triarchic is a theory on intelligence, it describe three distinct type of intelligence,componential, experiential, and practical