Unit 1 Key People

Mary Whiton Calkins

first female president of the APA (1905); a student of William James; denied the PhD she earned from Harvard because of her sex (later, posthumously, it was granted to her)

William James

founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment

Wilhelm Wundt

german physiologist who founded psychology as a formal science; opened first psychology research laboratory in 1879

Dorothea Dix

Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of US mental asylums

Carl Rogers

Humanisic; self-concept and unconditional positive regard drive personality

G. Stanley Hall

american psychologist who established the first psychology research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological Association