Wilhelm Wundt

• father of psychology

• founder of modern psychology

• opened first psychology lab in 1879

• german

• mainly used the method of structuralism

William James

• first American psychologist

• author of first psychology text book

• founder of functionalism

sigmund frued

• “psycho” and “unconscious” means frued

• founder of psycho-analytic perspective

believed that abnormal behavior originated from unconscious drives and conflits

sir Francis Galton

• concluded that genius and greatness are inherited

• invented procedures for testing abilities which led to the modern IQ test

• british

Ivan pavlov

• russian psychologist

• studied learning through animals

• emphasized of observable behaviors

John Watson

• founder of behaviorism

• studied only observable and objectively described acts

• science methodology

• american

• learned behavior

B.F.Skinner

• behaviorist

• focused on learning through rewards and pbservation

• american

E.B.Titchener

• analyzed intensity, clarity, and quality of the ports of consiousness

• founder of structuralism

• british

Maslow & rogers

• humanistic beliefs

• humans are not controlled by rewards and punishment

• started, “group therapy”

• americans

jean piaget

• psychology

• stupid cognitive development

• studied how children developed thinking abilties

• swiss