PSYCH 111: ROOTS OF PSYCHOLOGY

Wilhelm Wundt

Father of scientific/ experimental Psychology

E. L . Thorndike

Conducted the first experiment on animal learning called instrumental conditioning.

Plato

He says Character and intelligence are inherited and inborn.

Aristotle

Identified the heart as "the most important organ of the body, " and the first to form according to his observation of chick embryos.

anger

yellow bile

Franz Josef Gall

believes that you can discern intelligence, moral characters, and other basic personality traits from shapes and bumps on a person's skull

Rene Descartes

believes that nerves are hollow tubes through which impulses flow.

Wilhelm Wundt

Established the first formal laboratories in psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Granville Stanley Hall

Put up the first American psychology laboratory in John Hopkins University.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Reported the first experiments on human memory.

William James

Published the book entitled Principles of Psychology.

William James

Father of American Psychology

E. L . Thorndike

Father of Educational Psychology

Alfred Binet Theodore Simon

Devised the first intelligence test

Ivan Pavlov

Published classic studies on animal learning called classical conditioning

Margaret Washburn

First woman to receive Ph.D in Psychology with her research on animal behavior in the animal mind

John B. Watson

Established psychological school of Behaviorism

Virgilio Enriquez

Father of Philippine Psychology

Prospero Covar, Zeus Salazar, Alfredo Lagmay

Established the foundation of Psychology

Describe, Explain, Predict, Control or Change Behavior

The 4 Goals of Psychology

Philosophy and Physiology

Psychology springs from the field of ____ & ____

Trephining

refers to the drilling of a hole in the skull, presumably as a way of treating psychological disorders during prehistoric times

Primitive people

Who invented trephining

Hippocrates

Believed that emotions resulted from different combinations or levels or changes in the amount of the four basic body fluids

Depression

black bile

slow response

phlegm

lust

blood

John Locke

believes that the mind is a blank slate at birth that most knowledge comes from experience.

Sigmund Freud

Introduced the Psychoanalytic theory.