Psychologists

Wilhelm Wundt

• father of psychology
• founder of modern psychology
• opened first psychology lab in 1879
• german
• mainly used the method of structuralism

William James

• first American psychologist
• author of first psychology text book
• founder of functionalism

sigmund frued

• “psycho” and “unconscious” means frued
• founder of psycho-analytic perspective

believed that abnormal behavior originated from unconscious drives and conflits

sir Francis Galton

• concluded that genius and greatness are inherited
• invented procedures for testing abilities which led to the modern IQ test
• british

Ivan pavlov

• russian psychologist
• studied learning through animals
• emphasized of observable behaviors

John Watson

• founder of behaviorism
• studied only observable and objectively described acts
• science methodology
• american
• learned behavior

B.F.Skinner

• behaviorist
• focused on learning through rewards and pbservation
• american

E.B.Titchener

• analyzed intensity, clarity, and quality of the ports of consiousness
• founder of structuralism
• british

Maslow & rogers

• humanistic beliefs
• humans are not controlled by rewards and punishment
• started, “group therapy”
• americans

jean piaget

• psychology
• stupid cognitive development
• studied how children developed thinking abilties
• swiss

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