HISTORY AND SCHOOLS OF PSYCHOLOGY

History

Wilhelm Wundt - generally regarded as the "founder of psychology"; established the first psychological laboratory in the University of Leipzig, Germany in 1879.

Ernst Weber, Gustav Fechner, and Hermann von Helmholtz - pinoneered experimental method in the study of psychology.

Schools of Psychology and Their Proponents

Structuralism (Edward B. Titchener)
Functionalism (John Dewey, William James)
Behaviorism (Burrhus Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, John Watson)
Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud)
Gestalt (Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Kurt Koffka)
Humanistic (Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers)