Who's Who?
(People In psychology)
Wilhelm Wundt He founded the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879. He conducted many of the first experiments into human behavior in trying to unravel the mysteries of the mind. |
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Edward Thorndike Thorndike helped develop educational psychology by studying how people learn to help make new learning strategies for teaching |
William James William was the first to offer psychology courses at Harvard. He came up with a number of theories like the theory of self, the theory of emotion, pragmatic theory of truth, and the two-stage model of free will. |
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Sigmund Freud Freud developed psychoanalysis theory when treating people with “nervous disorders”. |
B.F Skinner Skinner is known for his work on operant conditioning |
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Mary Calkins Mary Whiton Calkins is best known for her studies and writings in self-psychology. |
Ivan Pavolv He made the theory of classical conditioning to explain the brain and its behaviors |
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Harry Harlow He found out that contact comfort was a essential part of survival and conduct his experiment of baby monkeys |