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Unit 1 PPL
Here are some the key people in the history of psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aristotle | Derived principles from careful observations and knowledge is not preexisting |
| Francis Bacon | one of the founders of modern science and his influence lingers in modern psychology |
| Charles Darwin | Survival or the fittest; theory of evolution |
| Rene Descartes | Discovered the importance of nerve paths and the enabling of reflexes |
| Plato and Socrates | Mind is separable from the body |
| John Locke | Tabula rasa |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | Pioneering memory researcher and first woman president of the APA |
| Dorothea Dix | Champion reformer, worked to get a state hospital system |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalytic theory & the first comprehensive theory on personality |
| William James | Taught functionalism at Harvard |
| Abraham Maslow | Hierarchy of needs; humanistic perspective |
| Ivan Pavlov | Discovered classical conditioning |
| Jean Piaget | Focused on the stages of development |
| Carl Rogers | One of the founders of humanistic psychology |
| B.F Skinner | Studied how consequences affected behavior |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | First female Ph.D. and wrote The Animal Mind |
| John B Watson | Created the Little Albert Experiment with Rayner |
| Wilhelm Wundt | Opened the first psychology lab in Germany |
| E.B. Titchener | Discovered structuralism |
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