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Here are some the key people in the history of psychology

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Aristotle   Derived principles from careful observations and knowledge is not preexisting  
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Francis Bacon   one of the founders of modern science and his influence lingers in modern psychology  
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Charles Darwin   Survival or the fittest; theory of evolution  
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Rene Descartes   Discovered the importance of nerve paths and the enabling of reflexes  
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Plato and Socrates   Mind is separable from the body  
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John Locke   Tabula rasa  
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Mary Whiton Calkins   Pioneering memory researcher and first woman president of the APA  
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Dorothea Dix   Champion reformer, worked to get a state hospital system  
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Sigmund Freud   Psychoanalytic theory & the first comprehensive theory on personality  
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William James   Taught functionalism at Harvard  
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Abraham Maslow   Hierarchy of needs; humanistic perspective  
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Ivan Pavlov   Discovered classical conditioning  
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Jean Piaget   Focused on the stages of development  
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Carl Rogers   One of the founders of humanistic psychology  
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B.F Skinner   Studied how consequences affected behavior  
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Margaret Floy Washburn   First female Ph.D. and wrote The Animal Mind  
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John B Watson   Created the Little Albert Experiment with Rayner  
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Wilhelm Wundt   Opened the first psychology lab in Germany  
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E.B. Titchener   Discovered structuralism  
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