Famous Names in Psychology
Who was perhaps the most famous American psychologist and his brand of behaviorism focused on responses?
BF Skinner
Who is associated with humanistic psychology?
Carl Rogers, Abraham Mazio
Who is associated to structuralism?
EB Titchener
Who was the first African American male psychology Ph.D. recipient?
Francis Cecil Sumner
Who was the first American male to earn a Ph.D. in psychology and opened the first psychology lab in the United States and was the first APA president?
G. Stanely Hall
What is social-cultural perspectives?
How thinking and behavior change depending on the setting or situation
What is cognitive psychology?
How we process information
Who was the first African American female to earn a Ph.D. in psychology?
Inez Beverly Brosser
Who is associated with cognitive psychology?
Jean Piaget
Who was the developmental and cognitive psychologist?
Jean Piaget
Who is associated with behaviorism?
John B Watson, BF Skinner, Ivan Pavlov
Who was the founder of behaviorism?
John B. Watson
Who is associated with gestalt psychology?
Kurt Koffka
Who is the first female to complete the requirements for a Ph.D. in psychology and was the first female APA president?
Mary Whiton Calkins
Who is associated with social-cultural perspectives?
Philip Zimbardo
What is gestalt psychology?
Psychological perspective that emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful WHOLES
Who is associated with psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
Who is the founder of psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
Who is the father of modern psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
Who is associated with functionalism?
William James
Who is the author of the first psychology textbook?
William James
What is evolutionary psychology?
combines aspects of biological, psychological, and social perspectives
What is humanistic psychology?
focuses on the study of the conscious experience, individual's freedom to choose and the capacity of personal growth
What is behavior genetics?
study of the relative effects of genes and environment on our behavior
What is psychoanalysis?
theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to the UNCONSCIOUS motives and conflict
What is functionalism?
theory that emphasized the functions of consciousness or the ways consciousness helps people adapt to their environment
What is behaviorism?
theory that psychology should only study observable behaviors, not mental processes
What is structuralism?
theory that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations