Dining with psychologists

DINING WITH PSYCHOLOGISTS: THE GUEST LIST

Instructor: Felicia Banks

Table 1: “Fathers of Psychology” Wilhelm Wundt-

“Father of experimental psychology” and the founder of the first psychology laboratory.

Sigmund Freud- Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Table 1: “Fathers of Psychology” Rene Descartes- French

philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic . He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy.

William James- American philosopher and psychologist who had trained as a physician; often referred to as the father of American psychology.

Table 1: “Fathers of Psychology”

Carl Jung- Swiss psychotherapist and psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology.

Herbert Marcuse- was a German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and celebrated as the "Father of the New Left.

Table 1: “Fathers of Psychology”

Santiago Ramon y Cajal-His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience. He was skilled at drawing, and hundreds of his illustrations of brain cells are still used for educational purposes today.

Table 2: Psychoanalysis Anna Freud-

Dedicated to the well-being of children, the Anna Freud Centre is at the forefront of research in child psychoanalysis and the training of psychotherapists.

Karen Horney- German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States; made significant contributions to psychoanalysis, personality theory, and feminine psychology.

Table 3: Individual/Identity Psychologists

Alfred Adler - Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.

Sir Francis Galton- He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies. He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase “nature versus nurture”.

Table 3: Individual/Identity Psychologists

John Locke- Widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self.

Gordon Allport- American psychologist, Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists David Wechsler-

American psychologist and inventor of several widely used intelligence tests for adults and children.

Albert Bandura- For almost six decades, he has been responsible for contributions to many fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and was also influential in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists Inez Prosser- A pioneering

African American psychologist who worked in educational psychology; often regarded as the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D. in psychology.

Hermann Ebbinghaus- German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, he was also the first person to describe the learning curve.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists Alfred Binet- French

psychologist who invented the first usable intelligence test, known at the time as the Binet test and today referred to as the IQ test.

Charles Henry Thompson- The first African American to obtain a doctoral degree in educational psychology.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists Alberta Banner Turner-

The first African American to receive a doctorate in Psychology from the Ohio State University, and a noted civil rights and women's rights activist in the field of Psychology.

Herman George Canady- An African-American social psychologist. He is noted as the first psychologist to examine the role of the race of the examiner as a bias factor in IQ testing.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists Ruth Winifred Howard

Beckham- The second African-American woman to receive a doctorate degree in psychology. She was active in many psychology organizations and received instruction from Florence Goodenough.

Francis Sumner-A pivotal leader in education reform. He is primarily known for being the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists Kenneth Clark-Best

known for his studies on race relations, most of which were conducted with his wife, psychologist Mamie Phipps Clark.

Mary Whiton Calkins- Mary Whiton Calkins was an American philosopher and psychologist. Calkins was also the first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association. She was responsible for the creation of a method of memorization called the right associates method.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists

Elizabeth Loftus-American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory.

Edward Thorndike- Famous in psychology for his work on learning theory that led to the development of operant conditioning within behaviorism.

Table 4: Educational Psychologists

Albert Sidney Beckham- A notable psychologist specializing in mental disabilities; he founded the psychological laboratory at Howard University.

Table 5: Developmental/Evolutionary Psychologists

G. Stanley Hall- American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University.

Jean Piaget-A Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children.


Charles Darwin- A British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.

Erik Erikson- German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis.


Lawrence Kohlberg- Psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.

Mamie Clark- Psychologist and activist Mamie Phipps Clark conducted groundbreaking studies on race and child development that helped end segregation in the United States.


Richard M. Lerner-A professor of psychology at Tufts University, occupying the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science. Also at Tufts, he directs the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development.

Table 6: Humanistic Psychologists

Carl Rogers- American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach (or client-centered approach) to psychology.

Abraham Maslow- American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization (humanistic theory).

Table 7: Behavioral Psychologists

John Watson-An American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.

B. F. Skinner- American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher; research on operant conditioning made him one of the leaders of behaviorism.

Table 7: Behavioral Psychologists Ivan Pavlov- Russian

physiologist, interested in physiology, but his discovery of classical conditioning heavily influenced the behaviorist movement.

Edward Tolman-An American psychologist. He was most famous for his studies on behavioral psychology.

Table 7: Behavioral Psychologists

Albert Ellis-an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

Aaron T. Beck-an American psychiatrist and a professor emeritus in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table 8: Neuropsychologists Roger Sperry- Won

the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with split-brain research (Neuropsychology).

Oliver Sacks-A British-American neurologist, writer, and amateur chemist who is Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine.

Table 8: Neuropsychologists Walter B. Cannon-an American

physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term fight or flight response, and he expanded on Claude Bernard's concept of homeostasis.

Table 9: Positive Psychologists (“Humanistic Psychologists”)

Martin Seligman- American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical psychologists. Seligman has written about positive psychology topics such as The Optimistic Child, Child's Play, Learned Optimism, Authentic Happiness, and Flourish.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi- A Hungarian psychology professor, he is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. Martin Seligman described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology.


Edward Diener- An American psychologist, professor, and author. He is noted for his research over the past twenty-five years on happiness — the measurement of well-being; temperament and personality.

Christopher Peterson- the Arthur F. Thurnau professor of psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the former chair of the clinical psychology area.


Michael Argyle- One of the best known English social psychologists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and worked on numerous topics.

Erich Fromm-A German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.


Adrian Furnham- South African-born British organisational and applied psychologist, management expert and Professor of Psychology at University College London.

Norbert Schwarz-The Charles Horton Cooley Collegiate Professor of Psychology in the Social Psychology program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.


Raymond Cattell-British and American psychologist known for his exploration of many areas in psychology.

Hans Eysenck-A psychologist born in Germany, who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas.


Daniel Kahneman-An Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology.

Amos Tversky- A cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk.


Richard Thaler- An American economist and the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Paul Slovic-A professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and the president of Decision Research.


Tory Higgins-A Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and Professor of Management at the Columbia Business School, he is perhaps best known for developing Self-Discrepancy Theory.

Mark Zanna- a social psychologist at the University of Waterloo. He is well known for his work on attitudes and intergroup relations.

References

The Field of Psychology

Psychologists. (n.d.). Retrieved from biography.com

Psychologists. (n.d.). Retrieved from en.wikipedia.org/wiki