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German philosopher and physiologist, Wilhelm Wundt, was the father of Psychology Conducted experiments of perceptions, sensations, and feelings using introspection (subjects describing their experiences in detail).
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Edward B. Titchener was the founder of structuralism, which was the first major school of thought in psychology. Structuralism sought to analyze the adult mind in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.
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William James, a Harvard University professor, who was the first american psychologist. Functionalism is the theory that all aspects of a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of that society.
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Sigmund Freud, an Austrian physician, was the father of psychoanalysis, a theory of personality and therapeutic techniques that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflict.
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John Watson was the launcher of behaviorism(also called behavioral psychology), emphasizes scientific and objective methods of investigation. The approach is only concerned with observable stimulus-response behaviors, and states all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment.
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Both Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are american psychologists; founders of Humanistic Psychology. Which is a psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of a whole person. Humanistic psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving.
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Erik Erikson is the founder of child development psychology, who created a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages, in which a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood.
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Rich Suinn has conducted extensive researching in areas of sport psychology, along with behavior and ethnic minority issues. He spent most of his career at Colorado State University, working as a professor and a department chair. He was the first psychologist to serve on a U.S. Olympic sports medicine team.
