Famous Figures and Their Theories in Psychology

Dear Students and Parents, 

Thank you all for coming to the art gallery walk last week! It was a pleasure speaking with you all, and appreciating your students beautiful artwork and creativity together. 

Now, as we dive further into the course, we'll be returning to our famous psychology figures and their theories that made them so famous! From Wilhelm Wundt in the 19th century all the way to B. F. Skinner in the 20th century, we will be taking a better look at all of their theories, and the contributions that they've made.

As we have discussed in class, students will now be tasked with a research paper, but before we get a jump on our typing, we will need to do some research to start. 

And so, in this blog post, you will find two resources available here for you to help get the basics down!

For the first resource, you will find a video linked here for you to watch. In the video, Hank Green from the YouTube channel Crash Course goes over multiple psychologists, the fields they studied in, and the contributions that they have made to the overall field of psychology. While this video is just an introduction to psychology and does not include all of the figures we will be discussing, it lays a great foundation for the basics, and will help deepen your understanding of the theories in a fun way. 

In the second resource provided for you, at the website WISC-Online Arcade, you will see a fun and quick matching game to help memorize some psychologists and their respective theories. First, you will click on the green play button in the bottom-right corner of the screen and then click on the "Play Single Player Game" button. 

After that, you will see a new screen that should have a button that says "Start Timer and Show Possible Answers." You will click on this button, and it will give you a 20-second timer to answer the given question. It will let you know if the answer was either right or wrong. Keep going until you have them all down!

And that's it! These two resources are here for you to use, and cultivate your knowledge. From the two resources, which of them was more fun? Was watching a video with fun graphics and witty commentary intriguing, or was the quick game of matching more interesting? Let me know, and I'll try my best to include more activities like these in the next blog post. 

Thank you and have fun learning!

Ms. Grace