People and Perspectives Psychology

Aristotle

Who takes information and how they act on that information (hero or the villain)

Hippocrates

Founder of modern medicine

Hermann Von Helmholtz

Studied voluntary reaction time

Gustav Fechner

Performed hearing test to measure sensory perception and thresholds

Wilheim Wundt

“Father of Psychology”. 1879, was apart of the University of Leipzig and established the first psychological laboratory.

Edward Titchener

Wundt’s student. And brought up structuralism

Sigmund Freud

Cocaine addict and proposed the three behaviors Id, Super Ego, and Ego. Also performed psychoanalysis

Descartes

Ideas and Emotions are innate. “Source of pleasure, laughter, sorrows, and joy..”

John Locke

Your mind associates certain thoughts from experiences. Your thoughts change over time as you grow

Clinical Psychology

Define, explain, or treat abnormal behaviors.

Social Psychology

Social and Cultural influences on behavior

Biological Psychology

Reactions to feelings, actions, or thoughts during events or changes

Developmental Psychology

Study how people grow or change over their life

Evolutionary Psychology

How evolution explains human commonality

Cognitive Psychology

Mental processes in memory, language, and problem solving.