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Unit 1 PPL

Here are some the key people in the history of psychology

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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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