Eventos
Socrates
Ancient Greek Philosopher who
believed the mind and body were
seperable and the mind would live
after the body.Plato
Socrates' student who would
become Aristotle's teacherAristotle,
Platos student, believed that
observations were the way to study
human behavoir.René Descartes
A French scientist agreed with
Sorates and dissected animals to
understand more about the mind.
He believed brain fluid was the soul.Francis Bacon
An English scientist who believed
that the human mind wanted to
recognize patterns and that is why
we remember certain events.John Locke,
a British political philosopher, wrote
about how the mind is a blank slate
at birth and we learn everything from
experiences.Wilhelm Wundt,
A German Scientist who started
the first psychology laboratory
in Leipzig, Germany.Edward Bradford Titchener,
Wundt's student introduced
structuralism at Cornell University.
He believed that by making patients
look inward, he could understand
the structure of the mind.William James
introduces functionalism, the idea
that mental and behavioral processes
function and how they enable the
organism to adapt, survive,
and flourish.Mary Calkins,
After being admitted to James'
graduate seminar and met all the
requirements for a Harvard Ph. D
that she was not rewarded because
she was a woman. She went on to
become a distinguished memory
researcher and the APA’s first
female president in 1905.Margret Washington,
the first woman to receive the
Harvard Ph. D. Because she was a \woman she could not become an
experimental psychologist but was
the second APA president in 1921.
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