Psych 111 - Intro to Psychology - Important figures & dates

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G. Stanely Hall

  • Owned first psych lab (John Hopkins) in the U.S.

  • Founded the American Psych Association (APA)


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Margaret Floy Washburn

  • First woman to earn psych PHD (1894)


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Francis Cecil Sumner

  • First person of color to earn a Psych Degree

  • Founder of the psych department at Howards University


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John Locke

  • Ppl are born as blank slates

  • All knowledge comes from experience & observation


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Weber

Real World

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Fechner

Perceived World

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Gestalt

Look at the entire context of psych rather than breaking it into different parts.

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Helmholtz

  • Examined how nerves worked

  • Recognized the time gaps between nerve signals to brain. Nerves Send & Receive.


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Wilhelm Wundt

  • Godfather of Psychology

  • 1879!!! He opened the first psychology lab in Germany.


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William James

  • Founder of Functionalism

  • Taught the first psych course

  • Wrote the first psych textbook