Psychologists: psych 1000

William James - north American father of psych

Created functionalism: the function of mental activities/behaviour

Wilhem Wundt: german vater of psych

created introspection: objective self-reflection/inspection of ones thoughts

Sigmund Freud

Neurologist interested in hysteria: emotional disturbances without a physical cause

Ivan Pavlov

created classical conditioning: studied conditioned reflexes in dogs with saliva

John Watson

created behaviourism: shifted focus from internal to external reasons for behaviour

B.F Skinner

created operant conditioning: consequence (+ / -) is driving force of behaviour

Abraham Malsow

created hierarchy of needs: behaviours are impacted by our motivation to survive (low-level) and later by higher level factors.

Carl Rogers

created client centred therapy: focused on unconditional positive regard, genuiness, and empathy.

Ulric Neisser

father of cognitive psych

Noam Chomsky

believed sole focus on behaviour was short-sighted

Francis Summer

First African American in US to receive PhD

George Sanchez

identified barriers (like language) posed to Mexican American children.

Margaret Floy Washburn

First women awarded doctoral degree in psych

Mary Whiton Calkins

Earned PhD form Harvard but was never awarded it

Mary Cover jones

demonstrated fear conditioning and fear removal in humans.

Martha Bernal

First Latina to earn PhD