Important Contributions to Psychology
Give a brief definition of why each person is important to the category mentioned.
History and Approaches
Person
Mary Whiton Calkins
Importance
Charles Darwin
Dorothea Dix
Sigmund Freud
G. Stanley Hall
William James
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
Carl Rogers
B.F. Skinner
Margaret Floy Washburn
John B. Watson
Wilhelm Wundt
Biological Bases of Behavior
Person
Paul Broca
Importance
Charles Darwin (repeat)
Michael Gazzaniga
Alexander Luria
Roger Sperry
Carl Wernicke
Sensation and Perception
Person
Gustav Fechner
Importance
David Hubel (with Wiesel)
Ernst Weber
Torsten Wiesel (with Hubel)
Cognition
Person
Noam Chomsky
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Wolfgang Kohler
Importance
Elizabeth Loftus
George A. Miller
George Sperling
Benjamin Whorf