psychologists

• Father of psychology 


  Wilhelm Wundt
• First experimental psychology

  lab 1879


  Wundt
• Psychodynamic approach 1900


  Sigmund Freud
• Nobel prize for classic conditioning 


  Pavlov 1904
• Watson and Skinner 1913


  behaviourist approach based on operant conditioning (reinforcement)
• Theory of Motivation 


  Abraham Maslow 1954 - humanistic approach
• Cognitive revolution with digital computer 


  1960
• Social learning theory 


  Albert Bandura 1961
• Biological approach 


  1980 - led to understanding of the brain e.g PET and fMRI scans
• Cognitive neuroscience 


  21st century - focussed on how biological structures influence mental states