Presentation Topics Presenters
9/16 Intellectual Advances of the Middle Ages ______
9/18 Contributions of Renaissance Scientists Amanda Shepard
(Galileo, DaVinci, Vives)
9/23 Life and Works of John Locke Matt Decker
Life and Works of George Berkeley ______
9/25 John Stuart Mill’s Philosophy and its ______
Impact on Applied Psychology
10/2 Life and Work of René Descartes James Jobe
Influence of Rational Philosophy on Psychology ______(Choose at least three rationalists from 17th-19th centuries)
10/7 Contributions of Immanuel Kant to Philosophy Amanda Milstein
and Psychology
19th Century Pioneers of Experimental Physiology ______
(Choose at least three 19th century scientists.)
10/9 The Progresses and Pitfalls of Phrenology Mike Reynolds
Francis Galton’s Influences on Psychology Phil Vandercook
10/14-10/16
Social Reform Movements of the 19th Century Gina Meyer
Charles Darwin’s Influences on Psychology Rick Seim
Contributions of Herbert Spencer Erica Jex
10/16 Advances in Psychophysics ______
(Ernst Weber and Gustav Fechner)
Life and Works of Hermann von Helmholtz ______
10/21 Life and Works of Wilhelm Wundt ______
Contributions from the University of Würzburg ______
(Brentano, Stumpf, Külpe)
Life and Contributions of Ebbinghaus ______
10/23 Life and Works of Edward Bradford Titchener ______
Life and Contributions of William James ______
to Psychology
10/28 Life and Contributions of Granville Stanley Hall Hartini Abdul Rahman
Contributions of Women to Applied Psychology Cassie Shacklett
Stephanie Stilling
Contributions of African-Americans to Psychology ______
(e.g., Francis Sumner, Kenneth Clark)
11/4 Life and Contributions of Pavlov Ashley Curtis
Life and Contributions of Thorndike ______
11/6 Life and Contributions of John Watson David Cotter
11/11 Karl Lashley’s Experimental Investigations ______
of Learning
11/13 Comparison/Contrast of Neobehaviorist ______
Learning Theories (Hull, Guthrie, Tolman, and Skinner)
11/18 Köhler’s Research on Learning Pamala Topp
Life and Contributions of Kurt Lewin ______
11/20 Life and Contributions of Sigmund Freud ______
11/25 Comparison/Contrast of Psychoanalytic Theories ______
(Choose at least two: Adler, Jung, Horney)
12/2 Contributions of Humanistic Theories Marina Shafran
(Choose at least two: Maslow, Rogers, Frankl)