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1 HISTORY OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY

2 CHARLES DARWIN Study animals to understand human behavior Sexual selection – explained structures unrelated to survival Kin selection – explained altruism

3 WILLIAM WUNDT Father of Psychology German First Psychology Lab 1874 Structuralism- analysis of sensations & feelings through use of Introspection Introspection – inspection of one’s own thoughts Found Unreliable & Unscientific

4 WILLIAM JAMES American 1st Psychology Lab in US 1875 Harvard College Functionalism – How behavior works to help people to live in their environment Stream of Thought (Consciousness) The whole continuous & changing He suffered from depression

5 IVAN PAVLOV Russian Behaviorist Classical Conditioning and Uncontrolled responses

6 JOHN B. WATSON American Behaviorist Emotional Conditioning “Little Albert” Experiment

7 B.F. SKINNER American Behaviorist Operant Conditioning Free will is an illusion Reinforcement & Punishments Associations

8 SIGMUND FREUD Austrian Psychoanalysis Unconscious mind & early childhood experiences cause adult personality and behavior Conscious mind is only the tip of the iceberg Primitive biological impulses lay just beneath the surface

9 CARL ROGERS American Humanism Fully-Functioning Self Free Will & Self Determination “A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning”

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