Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology - People

Introduction to Psychology

****Phineas Gage****

Was a railroad worker when he got a spike through his head

He survived but suffered frontal lobe brain damage; speech, function, thinking

Wilhelm Wundt

Edward Titchener

William James

****Mary Whiton Calkin****

First women to study psychology

Studied dreams and memories

Never given a PhD because she was a women; called Dr Calkin out of respect

****Marget Flay Washburn****

First woman to earn a PhD in psychology

****Sigmund Freud****

Created the Psychoanalytic Theory

Very influential in history, lore and psych

Studied histria

Believed most problems stem from the unconscious mind

Proscribed and used cocaine

Ivan Pavlov

Classical Conditioning using food and sound

1. Training a dog: Ring the bell and the dog doesn’t respond

2. Ring the bell and give the dog food

3. Ring the bell and the dog comes expecting food

John B. Watson

Thought it was impossible to study the mind and focused on observations

Father of behaviorism

BF Skinner

Focused on what gets you to produce a certain behavior

Skinners Box: Preformed on rodents, if they press the lever on blue light they get food, red light they get a shock, taught not to press on red light