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Historical psychologists
Term | Definition |
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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 |