Famous Psychologists

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1 Famous Psychologists Intro: Ask students to list famous psychologists that they already know. Discuss any psychologists that has been influential to you as a psychology teacher. Lesson: Have students cut these pages and paste onto notecards. Students then order the notecards by birth year of these famous psychologists. Students highlight the most important bullet for each person. Students then have notecards for studying. Homework: Students write a timeline of events into their notebook using the highlighted bullet that they completed in class. Famous Psychologist Report

2 Mary Whiton Calkins March February 1930 She was admitted to Harvard as a guest, not a student, because she was a woman. Harvard refused to award her a degree despite completing a thesis. Student of William James. Taught as Wellesley College First Woman president of the American Psychology Association. Ivan Pavlov Sept February 1936 Studied digestive system of dogs. Conditioned dogs to salivate to a tone. Did not like psychology but was cited often by Watson. Won Nobel Prize in Physiology in His work became Classical Conditioning. John B. Watson Jan Sept Earned PhD in Psychology in Taught at John Hopkins University in Lecture: Psychology as the Behaviorist views it. He & Rosalie Rayner conditioned infant Little Albert to fear white a rat. Little Albert was probably Douglas Merritte who died at age 6 of hydrocephalus (fluid in the skull). He founded Behaviorism and was president of APA in 1915.

3 Dorthea Dix April 1802 July 1887 Activist for the insane Superintendent of Army Nurses during U.S. Civil War Created first American mental asylums. Margaret Floy Washburn July 1871 Oct First woman to be granted a PhD in Psychology. 1921: Second woman president of the APA. 1908: Published The Animal Mind: A textbook of Comparative Psychology Translated Wundt s work to English G. Stanley Hall Feb April : Founded the American Journal of Psychology 1889: First President of Clark University. 1892: First President of the American Psychological Association. 1909: Invited Freud and Jung to lecture at Clark and promised an honorary degree to Freud. Critics argued against this. Established experimental lab at John Hopkins.

4 Hermann Ebbinghaus Jan Feb Study of memory: learning curve, forgetting curve, and spacing effect The Ebbinghaus Illusion (two objects of the same size will appear to be different sizes if surrounded by smaller or larger objects) Hippocrates B.C.E. Father of Medicine Believed that a person s health was affected by a balance of 4 bodily humors: Black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlem Leta Stetter Holingworth May 1886 Nov Received her dissertation under the supervision of Edward Thorndike Disproved the variability hypothesis that stated that men have greater variability in intelligence than women Opened the first school for the gifted

5 Francis Cecil Sumner Dec Jan Father of Black Psychology He was the first man of color to receive his PhD in psychology He studied race differences and higher education attainment by African Americans. Karen Horney Sept Dec Founded Feminist Psychology Neo-Freudian view of coping strategies labeled 10 neurotic needs: o Affection/approval o Need to exploit others o Social recognition o Personal admiration o Personal achievement o Self-sufficiency/independence o Perfection o Need to lead an inconspicuous life Ruth Winifred Howard March 1900 Feb She was the first black woman to receive a PhD in Psychology.

6 Philippe Pinel April 1745 Oct Father of Psychiatry French physician Classified mental disorders through his textbook of insanity First to describe schizophrenia Moral Therapy humane treatment of those in need of mental care Jean Marc Gaspard Itard April 1774 July 1838 Discovered the first case of Tourette Syndrome Teacher of deaf students, experimented on deaf students in effort to restore hearing Tried out his own educational theories on Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron