History of Psychology

  • Sir Francis Galton

    Sir Francis Galton
    Human Intelligence
  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Wilhelm Wundt
    father of experimental psychology". In 1879, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research
  • William James

    William James
    He was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the U.S.
  • Ivan Pavlov

    Ivan Pavlov
    father of Russian physiology
  • Sigmund freud

    Sigmund freud
    founding father of psychoanalysis
  • Mary Whiton Calkins

    Mary Whiton Calkins
    Calkins was also the first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association.
  • edwarrd titchener

    edwarrd titchener
    best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind; structuralism.
  • Karen Horney

    Karen Horney
    Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology.
  • Kurt Koffka

    Kurt Koffka
    Gestalt psychology
  • anna freud

    anna freud
    followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis
  • Jean Piaget

    Jean Piaget
    psychologist and philosopher
  • Carl Rogers

    Carl Rogers
    among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology
  • Erik Erikson

    Erik Erikson
    psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings.
  • BF Skinner

    BF Skinner
    behaviorist
  • Abraham maslow

    Abraham maslow
    hierarchy of needs
  • Kenneth Clarrk

    Kenneth Clarrk
    experiments using dolls to study children's attitudes about race.