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Charles Darwin
created theory of evolution which helped observe animal behavior. this then allowed scientists to relate animal behavior to human behavior -
James
wrote the first psychology textbook, may have had the first psychology lab in America; established functionalism -
Wundt
established psychology as a separate scientific discipline, sought to determine the mind through analytic introspection -
Ivan Pavlov
was invited to organize and direct the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine -
Freud
established psychoanalysis via work with female clients in Austria, believed the roots of psychological problems were motives that reside in the part of the mind of which we are unaware called the “subconscious”; dream analysis -
Watson
established radical behavioralism -
Jean Piaget
theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called “genetic epistermology” -
Abraham Maslow
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a 'bag of symptoms -
Harry Harlow
maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development. -
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky published an influential critique of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior, a book in which Skinner offered a theoretical account of language in functional, behavioral terms. -
Erik Erikson
published youth and crisis, also discovered the developmental theory -
Mary Cover Jones
Mother of behavioral therapy, Jones received the prestigious G. Stanley Hall Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) -
Jerome Kagan
He authored Growth of the Child (1978), pioneer in the field of developmental psychology. He has shown that an infant's "temperament" can predict certain other behaviorals patterns that appear in adolescence. -
B.F. Skinner
Explained his theory of operant conditioning in his book About Behaviorism -
Albert Bandera
believed that aggression is learned through a process called behavior modeling. He believed that individuals do not actually inherit violent tendencies, but they modeled them after three principles
