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2 What Is Psychology – and What Is It Not?
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes Psychology is not Mere speculation about human nature A body of folk wisdom about people that “everybody knows” to be true

3 Psychology’s Roots Psychology can be traced back to ancient Greece and the men listed below. Socrates Plato Aristotle Followed several centuries later by French – Rene Descartes English – Francis Bacon & John Locke

4 A New Day Wilhelm Wundt in 1879 Edward Titchener – Structuralism

5 Growing Scientific Field
William James – 1st President of APA Wrote 1st text book Charles Darwin – Evolution

6 Don’t forget the Ladies
Mary Whiton Calkins – 1st Woman President of APA & without a Ph.D. Margaret Floy Washburn – 1st Female Psychology Ph.D.

7 The Next Level Sigmund Freud – Ivan Pavlov –
Pioneer in the study of Learning Sigmund Freud – Father of Psychoanalysis

8 Jean Piaget – Cognitive & Developmental
John B. Watson – Behaviorist B.F. Skinner- Behaviorist

9 Another New Approach Carl Rogers – Humanist Abraham Maslow- Humanist

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