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Washburn's best-known work and, arguably, her most significant contribution to psychology was her influential textbook, The Animal Mind: A Textbook of Comparative Psychology. Originally published in 1908, this book compiled research on experimental work in animal psychology.
There were two primary ways in which James J. Gibson reformed the way psychology views perception. The first is that the templates of our stimulation are affected by a moving organism. This was shown through his research on optic arrays. Secondly, he formulated the idea of three-dimensional space being conceptual.
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Edward Bradford Titchener (11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism.
In 1953 Sears returned to Stanford where he served as chair of the Psychology department until 1961, Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1961 to 1970, and David Starr Jordan Professor of Psychology from 1970 until 1975. [3] At Stanford, Sears did studies using the Terman sample of gifted children.
Margaret Floy Washburn: 1871–1939 Studied sensation and perception and theorized that one's consciousness was responsible for their own motor activities. She was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology. [328] Nicole Weekes: Naomi Weisstein: 1939–2015 [329] Susan Weinschenk: 1953–present Behavioural psychology: Louise ...
Louis Leon Thurstone (May 29, 1887 – September 29, 1955) [1] was an American pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics.He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions to factor analysis.