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HISTORICAL FIGURES

HISTORICAL FIGURES. Mary Whiton Calkins. 1 st woman president of the American Psychological Association Pioneered memory research. William James. Its more important to consider evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings Introduced Functionalism Wrote textbook, Principles of Psychology.

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HISTORICAL FIGURES

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  1. HISTORICAL FIGURES

  2. Mary Whiton Calkins • 1st woman president of the American Psychological Association • Pioneered memory research

  3. William James • Its more important to consider evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings • Introduced Functionalism • Wrote textbook, Principles of Psychology

  4. Charles Darwin • Evolutionary theorist • Natural Selection: traits that are necessary for reproduction and survival are most likely to be passed on • Thinking developed because it was contributed to survival

  5. Ivan Pavlov • Pioneered the study of learning • Behaviorism

  6. Jean Piaget • Observer of children • Developed the intellectual development theory for children • Cognitive Psychology

  7. Carl Rogers • One of the founders of humanistic psychology • Emphasized current environmental influences on our growth potential • Need love and acceptance

  8. Dorothea Dix • Helped reform inhumane treatment for psychological disorders

  9. Sigmund Freud • Psychoanalytic theory

  10. G. Stanley Hall • One of the first psychologists to describe adolescence • Believed the tension between biological maturity and social dependence creates a period of “storm and stress” • 1st President of the American Psychological Association • Member of the School of Structuralism

  11. B.F. Skinner • Behaviorist • Rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior

  12. Margaret Floy Washburn • 1st woman to receive a psychology Ph.D. • 1st foreign study to be publishedin Wundt’s journal

  13. John B. Watson • Psychology is the science of behavior • Little Albert experiment demonstrated the effect of conditioned response

  14. Wilhelm Wundt • Established the first psychology lab in Leipzig Germany in 1879 • Member of the School of Structuralism

  15. Edward Bradford Titchener • Introduced Structuralism

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