1. HISTORICAL FIGURES

2. Mary Whiton Calkins
1st woman president of the American Psychological Association
Pioneered memory research

3. William James
Its more important to consider evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings
Introduced Functionalism
Wrote textbook, Principles of Psychology

4. Charles Darwin Evolutionary theorist
Natural Selection: traits that are necessary for reproduction and survival are most likely to be passed on
Thinking developed because it was contributed to survival

5. Ivan Pavlov
Pioneered the study of learning
Behaviorism

6. Jean Piaget Observer of children
Developed the intellectual development theory for children
Cognitive Psychology

7. Carl Rogers One of the founders of humanistic psychology
Emphasized current environmental influences on our growth potential
Need love and acceptance

8. Dorothea Dix
Helped reform inhumane treatment for psychological disorders

9. Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalytic theory

10. G. Stanley Hall One of the first psychologists to describe adolescence
Believed the tension between biological maturity and social dependence creates a period of “storm and stress”
1st President of the American Psychological Association
Member of the School of Structuralism

11. B.F. Skinner Behaviorist
Rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior

12. Margaret Floy Washburn
1st woman to receive a psychology Ph.D.
1st foreign study to be publishedin Wundt’s journal

13. John B. Watson Psychology is the science of behavior
Little Albert experiment demonstrated the effect of conditioned response

14. Wilhelm Wundt
Established the first psychology lab in Leipzig Germany in 1879
Member of the School of Structuralism

15. Edward Bradford Titchener
Introduced Structuralism