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Psychology’s Important Historical Figures : 

Psychology’s Important Historical Figures By: Victoria Meyers Ed 205-13

The Major Figures of Psychology. : 

The Major Figures of Psychology. Important Figures in Psychological History: Sigmund Freud B.F. Skinner John B. Watson Abraham Maslow Rollo May Ivan Pavlov Resource Page Author’s Page Quit

Sigmund Freud : 

Sigmund Freud Born May 6th, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia While in medical school he became interested in psychology. He has worked with the psychiatrists Charcot and Bernheim with hypnosis in hysterics. He was the director of a children's ward in Berlin. He married Martha Bernays in 1886. Martha birthed 3 sons and 3 daughters. He created his own neuropsychiatry practice. In his 40’s, he developed many psychological disorders like extreme fear of dying and other phobias. During that time he began analyzing his own dreams, memories and personality development. Quit

Freud’s Theories : 

Freud’s Theories Freud developed the psychosexual stages of development, which was an advanced theory on personality development. He also created the idea of dream interpretation and psychoanalysis. He believed that dreams expressed what we truly wanted deep down in our unconscious. Freud also created structural and topographical models of personality; the id, ego and super-ego. Click on the photo to read further into Freud’s many theories. Quit

B. F. Skinner : 

B. F. Skinner Born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. After attending Hamilton college, he decided to be a writer. One afternoon, at a bookstore he discovered books of Pavlov. At 24, Skinner enrolled in the Psychology Department at Harvard. While at Harvard, Skinner studied the behavior of rats. During these studies he invented the cumulative recorder which recorded every response and showed the rate of response the rats had. It showed that when the rats responded it was not because of the stimulus but on what would follow the response. He named this operant behavior. In 1936 he married Yvonne Blu. During World War II, he trained pigeons to guide bombs; this was called the Project Pigeon and was discontinued. Quit

John. B. Watson : 

John. B. Watson Born on January 9th, 1878 in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. In 1894 he attended the Furman University. He also attended the University of Chicago in 1900 where he pursued a PhD in experimental psychology. In 1904 he married Mary Ickes and had 2 children with her. In 1908 he became a professor and director of the psychological laboratory at Johns Hopkins University; after a scandal he was fired and began working in an advertising agency. He is given most credit to creating behaviorism which is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposal that all things that organisms do can and should be regarded as behaviors. In 1984 Watson was inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Science and Technology. Quit

Abraham Maslow : 

Abraham Maslow Born on April 1st, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied law at the City College of New York, where he then transferred to Cornell and back again. He married his cousin Bertha Goodman, they had 2 daughters. They moved to Wisconsin so he could attend the University of Wisconsin, where he became fascinated with psychology. After graduation he became interested and began research on human sexuality. While he served as a chair for the psychology department at Brandeis he developed humanistic psychology. Humanistic Psychology it is concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the context for the development of psychological theory. He died June 8th, 1970. Quit

Rollo May : 

Rollo May Born April 21st, 1909 in Ada, Ohio. He attended Michigan State University, but was expelled after involvement within a radical student magazine. After being expelled he attended Oberlin College. He entered the Union Theological Seminary where he befriended Paul Tillich an existentialist theologian. After contracting tuberculosis, he read many books on existentialism which inspired his own theory. Existentialism is a philosophical and literary movement based on the set of guidelines that concrete, individual existence takes precedence over abstract, conceptual essence and the belief that human beings are free and responsible for their actions and this responsibility is the source of their feelings of dread and anguish. He also created stages of development from an existentialist point of view. Quit

Ivan Pavlov : 

Ivan Pavlov Born on September 14th, 1849. As a child he went to a church school, and attended a theological seminary but after reading into D. I. Pisarev and I. M. Sechenov he abandoned his religious career and decided to devote his life to science. Pavlov then went to study mathematics and physics. In 1875 Pavlov completed his courses and received the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences but he decided to continue his studies and then attended the Academy of Medical Surgery where he graduated in 1879. He won an fellowship at the academy and in 1883 he presented his doctor's thesis on the subject of the centrifugal nerves of the heart. In this these he developed the idea of nervism, in other research he showed that there existed a basic pattern in the reflex regulation of the activity of the circulatory organs. Quit

Pavlov Continued… : 

Pavlov Continued… In 1890 he became the director of the Psychology Department at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, as well as Professor of Pharmacology at the Military Medical Academy. In the1890’s he continued investigating physiology of digestion. During this time he investigate the gastric function of dogs by externalizing a saliva gland so he could collect, measure and analyze the saliva and the response it had under certain food conditions. This was when “Pavlov’s Dog” was created; he established the basic laws for the establishment and extinction of what he called conditional reflexes. Click on photo to watch the recreation of the Pavlov’s Dog experiment. Quit

References : 

References Abraham Maslow: Father of Modern Management. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://www.abraham-maslow.com/amIndex.asp>. "B.F. Skinner." ID-ology the blog of ID Branding . Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://idology.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/the-insincere- business-of-manipulation-and-seduction/>. Boeree, C. G. "Personality Theories: ABRAHAM MASLOW." Web Space. N.p., 2006. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html>. Boeree, C. G. . "Personality Theories: Rollo May." Web Space. N.p., 2006. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/may.html>. Boeree, C. G. "Personality Theories: Sigmund Freud." Web Space. N.p., 2009. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/freud.html>. "Ivan Pavlov - Biography." Nobel Prize. Nobel Foundation, 2010. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1904/pav lov-bio.html>. Quit

References Continued… : 

References Continued… "John Broadus Watson." Furman Psychology Department. Furman University, n.d. Web. 8 Apr 2010. http://alpha.furman.edu/~einstein/watson/watson1.htm>. ""Pavlov's Dog" illustration." Early Behaviorism: Pseudoscience or Poor Methodology?. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://www.flavinscorner.com/scibadly1.htm>. Psychology. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://www.dpcdsb.org/CEC/Programs/Special+Education/ Support+Services/PSY/Services+Offered.htm>. "Sigmund Freud - Life and Work | Theories." Freud File. AROPA, 2010. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://www.freudfile.org/theory.html>. Sigmund Freud. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://www.freudsigmund.com/>. Vargas, J.S. "A Brief Biography of B.F. Skinner ." B. F. Skinner Foundation. B.F. Skinner Foundation, 2010. Web. 8 Apr 2010.<http://www.bfskinner.org/BFSkinner/AboutSkinner.ht ml>. Vasudha Devanathan's UCSD Career. Web. 8 Apr 2010. <http://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~vdevanat/>. Quit

Author : 

Author My name is Victoria Meyers and I am a student at Grand Valley State University. I currently am majoring in Psychology, and aspire to be a Special Education teacher for students within the K-12 range. You can email at: meyersv@mail.gvsu.edu Quit