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American Psychologist, 2012
Presents a short biography of one of the winners of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. The 2012 winner is Laurie R. Santos for creative and insightful investigations of cognition across a broad range of species and psychological domains, illuminating cognitive…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Animal Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology
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Wozniak, Robert H. – American Psychologist, 2009
James Mark Baldwin is one of the most important and least known early American scientific psychologists. Drawing inspiration from Charles Darwin and other evolutionists of the period, Baldwin developed a biosocial theory of psychological development that influenced both Jean Piaget and Lev S. Vygotsky; and he proposed a mechanism relating learned…
Descriptors: Heredity, Psychologists, Piagetian Theory, Developmental Psychology
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Green, Christopher D. – American Psychologist, 2009
American functionalist psychology constituted an effort to model scientific psychology on the successes of English evolutionary theory. In part it was a response to the stagnation of Wundt's psychological research program, which had been grounded in German experimental physiology. In part it was an attempt to make psychology more appealing within…
Descriptors: Evolution, Psychological Studies, Psychological Testing, Physiology