AP Psychology Unit 1 People

Wilhelm Wundt

established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany

G. Stanley Hall

Wundt's American student who went on to establish the first formal U.S. psychology laboratory

Edward Bradford Titchener

used introspection to search for the mind's structural elements

William James

was a legendary teacher-writer and the founder of functionalism who authored an important 1890 psychology text.

Charles Darwin

argued that natural selection shapes behaviors as well as bodies

Mary Whiton Calkins

was a pioneering memory researcher and the first woman to be president of the American Psychological Association

Margaret Floy Washburn

The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D; synthesized animal behavior research in "The Animal Mind" (1908)

John B. Watson

working with Rosalie Rayner, Watson championed psychology as the scientific study of behavior

B.F. Skinner

leading behaviorist that rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior

Sigmund Freud

The controversial ideas of this famed personality theorist and therapist have influenced humanity's self-understanding

Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

led humanistic psychology

Ivan Pavlov

pioneered the study of learning; was a Russian physiologist

Jean Piaget

the last century's most influential observer of children; was a Swiss biologist

Dorothea Dix

a pioneer who led the way to humane treatment of those with psychological disorders