Chapter 1 People
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- Q1studied with William James; founded one of the first dozen psychology laboratories; invented technique for studying memory; first women to be elected president of American Psychology Association (APA) in 1905; never received Ph.D.; "guest student" at Harvard because she was a woman; could have had Ph.D. but was given her doctorate from Radcliffe which she refusedMary Whiton Calkins30s
- Q2Austrian physician; disected 400 mole eels to prove they had testes (he wanted to make an important discovery); his theories made him controversial; treated medical disorders like psychological problems with psychoanalysisSigmund Freud30s
- Q3studied briefly with Wundt; reeled off a series of "firsts": first person to establish a research lab at Johns Hopkins, first president of APAG. Stanley Hall30s
- Q4worked on adolescent development, mental retardation, and gifted children; first person to use the term gifted one of the first people to do experiments about the "theory" of women being inferior to menLeta Stetter Hollingsworth30s
- Q5worked on functionalism; formal training in medicine; felt too sickly to pursue the practice; wrote "Principles of Psychology" which became the most infulential text in the field; believed psychology is embedded in cultural and intelectual beliefs; impressed by natural selectionWilliam James30s
- Q6most prominent person in humanistic movement; believed people have the basic need to evolve as human beings; pioneered the study of person-centered therapy in psychologyCarl Rogers30s
- Q7elected president of APA in 1997; characterized "epiphany" because of his daughter who called him "grumpy"; pushed the positive psychology movement into action; converted informal meetings with influential psychologistsMartin Seligman30s
- Q8work influenced by Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson; tried to be a writer; returned to the focus of observable behavior; claimed he could control the behavior of animals by manipulating outcomes of their responsesB.F. Skinner30s
- Q9first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology; wrote "The Animal Mind"; second woman to serve as president of APA; only permitted to take graduate classes at Columbia University; received doctorate from Cornell UniversityMary Floy Washburn30s
- Q10founded behaviorism; proposed that psychologists stop studying consciousness; tried redefining what psychology should be about; power of psychology (in his opinion) came from verifiability; stalked out the idea of nature versus nurtureJohn B. Watson30s
- Q11tried to make psychology an independent discipline; established first formal laboratory in University of Lepzig; wrote the first journal in researching psychology; characterized as founder of psychologyWilhelm Wundt30s