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AP Psychology
Unit 1 - Key People
Question | Answer |
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Mary Whiton Calkins* | A pioneering memory researcher who was denied her degree by Harvard because she was a woman even though she outscored the men. |
Charles Darwin (1830s)* | Darwin argued that natural selection shapes behaviors and body. |
Dorothea Dix* | She led to the humane treatment of those with disorders and away from locking them in cages etc. |
Sigmund Freud (early 1900s) * | INTROSPECTIVE: emphasized the ways emotional responses to childhood experiences and our unconscious thought processes our behavior. |
G. Stanely Hall | Created the first psychology labratory. |
William James | Famous Harvard teacher and writer in the 1800s who mentored Mary Calkins. |
Ivan Pavlov | Pioneered the study of learning |
Jean Piaget | last century's most influential observer of children. |
Carl Rogers (1960s)* | HUMANISTIC. Focused on current environmental influences can nuture or limit our growth potential and the importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied. |
B.F. Skinner (1920s)* | BEHAVIORIST. Along with Josh B Watson, Redefined psychology in the 1920s as we understand it today. "it is the scientific study of observable behavior". |
Margaret Floy Washburn | The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D. researching animal behavior. |
Josh B. Watson (early 1900's)* | BEHAVIORIST. Redefined psychology in the 1920s as we understand it today. "it is the scientific study of observable behavior". |
Wilhelm Wundt (early 1900's)* | INTROSPECTIVE. Established the first psychology library creating the birth of psychology as we know it. Science was built on Wundt's first lab and experiments. |
How the famous people evolved with psychology. | Introspective to Behavorist to Humanistic. |