Twenieth Century Psychology

By Khalil Fields

  • Washburn

    Washburn was the first women to earn a PhD at Cornell Vassar College after she was first denied. This is significant because it shows women are more than "house wives" and can contribute in different ways.

  • Pavlov

    Pavlov discovered conditioning in 1910. Its when one stimulus comes in occurence with another stimulus. This can realte in real life by training dogs or therapy. You can condition a dogs stimulus for it to react a certain way to a signal/stimulus.

  • Watson

    Watson discovered behaviorism in 1915. He held his "Little Albert" experiment also researched animal behavior, child rearing and advertising. It was a study focusing on different behaviors. In real life, this can be used for companies to get a positive behavioral response to one of their advertisments. Also can be applied in many other situatoins.

  • Thorndike

    Edward Thorndike studied learning in cats. His work on animal behavior led to the thoery connectionism. He would see if cats would catch on when they would step on a hidden switch to exit a cage. This relates in real life by seeing if a human mind can connect on other things. Something bigger like what we're doing / how to stop global warming.

  • Maslow

    Maslow studied humanistic therapy. He had a thoery of self-actualization. He stressed the importance of seeing the good in people. Its a contribute in real life by giving sickened people someone to go to and releive stress freely. Psychological therapy can help ease their mind and soul.

  • Piaget

    Piaget studied childrens intelligence. He was a French speaking scientist that stressed the importance on the education of children. Its beneficial by trying to giving the world a higher intellect at a younger age and handing everyone an education.

  • Rogers

    He practiced humanistic approach. He approached psychology with a humanistic approach. He used it to further understand personality and human relationships. His research benefits us by helping people understand other people better rather going off a random insticnt.

  • Skinner

    BF Skinner studied reinforcements. He made great contributions to reliability, interpretation of error and also cognitive ability. This can relate by helping voter in a election. You can see how a canidate is also its vice. You can see if its reinforcements are good and if it would be a smart choice to pick them.

  • Chomsky

    This is when Noam Chomsky studied language. The ability of a hearer-speaker to produce interpret utterances. In real life this explains how kids can learn languages so quickly and how other ones are developed.