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II. Studies Driven by the Behaviourist School
Some of the earliest and most influential experiments in psychology were aided with the availability of video recording technology. Following the Structuralistic, Functionalistic Psychoanalytic and Gestalt schools of thought came
Classical Experiments Series: A Watchlist
Some of the most influential experiments in psychology are aided with video footage. Compiling links and sources of these, this series contains documentaries, reenactments and representations of these experiments. Get
I. Foundational Work and Studies
Although this series is primarily intended to delve into video footage dug up from archives around the internet of classical experiments that have shaped psychology as a science today, we’d
1) Wundt, Titchener and James: The Foundations
First, the founder of experimental psychology, Wilhelm Wundt. Wundt established the first psychology laboratory in the world, in 1879, at the University of Leipzig, Germany, which is largely accepted as
2) Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung: Psychoanalysis
Moving into the 20th century, we find small bits of recordings of some prominent names from the era. Among some of the first generation of truly popular psychologists, we have
3) Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka: Gestalt school and The Mentality of Apes
Another important school of thought to emerge at the turn of the 20th century was the Gestalt school. Convinced that the segmented approach of most psychologists to the study of human
4) Ivan Pavlov: Classical Conditioning
Despite featuring as one of the first experimenters in our series with footage, Ivan Pavlov didn’t really start out with his experiment hoping to contribute to the study of psychology.
5) John Watson: Little Albert Experiment
John Watson, an American psychologist made the study of psychology more scientific by starting a new school of thought, Behaviourism. He defined psychology as the “study of observable behaviour” (which