101.1 Important People: History and Approaches

Dorothea Dix

creation of American mental hospitals

Charles Darwin

Evolutionary Psychologist (theory of evolution)

Mary Whiton Calkins

First female president of the APA

Ivan Pavlov

Classical Conditioning

William James

Wrote first psychology textbook

G. Stanley Hall

First Psychology lab in America at Johns Hopkins; 1st president of the APA (American Psychological Association)

Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalytic Perspective

Wilhelm Wundt

First Psychology lab experiment; pushing button when hear sound one

John B. Watson

Behaviorism; Little Albert

Margaret Floy Washburn

First Female Ph.D. in Psychology

B.F. Skinner

Operant Conditioning

Carl Rogers

Self theory; client centered therapy, active listening, unconditional positive regard.

Jean Piaget

Cognitive Development