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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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

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