Term |
Definition |
Wilhelm Wundt |
father of psychology; first psychology lab; trained in introspection |
William James |
publish the first science textbook: "The Principles of Psychology"; established the theory of functionalism |
Max Wertheimer |
Gestalt psychologist; tried to examine a person's experience as a whole |
Sigmund Freud |
believe the unconscious mind controls how we think and act; used psychoanalytic therapy |
Margaret Floy Washburn |
first woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology |
John Watson |
though psychology should be limited to what we can see; wanted to establish behaivoralism; Little Albert guy |
Ivan Pavlov |
led to the development of the classical conditioning model of learning by experimenting with dogs |
B.F. Skinner |
expanded idea of behaivoralism to include reinforcement and punishment |
Mary Whiton Calkins |
first female president of the APA |
G. Stanley Hall |
founder and first president of the APA; first American psychology lab and journal |
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rodgers |
humanists |