B.F Skinner According to McLeod (2007, Skinner - Operant Conditioning section, para.

1:4), By the 1920s John Watson had left academic psychology and other behaviourists were becoming influential, such as B.F.Skinner. Skinner's views were less extreme than John Watsons. Skinner believed that one does have a mind, but that it is more productive to study observable behaviour rather than internal mental events. Skinner believed that the best way to understand behaviour is to look at the causes of an action and its consequences. He called this conditioning. Swenson (1999, Biography section, para. 1) & Moloney (2009, Abstract section, para. 1) suggest that B.F. Skinner was one of the most influential psychologists of all time.

Mcleod, S. (2007). Simply Psychology. Retrieved March 6, 2012 from http://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html Moloney, S. (2009). Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) (Fred). Retrieved March 6, 2012 from http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Skinner__BF.html Swenson, C. (1999). Burrhus Frederick Skinner. Retrieved March 6, 2012 from http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/skinner.htm

Kurt Koffka According to Alic (2001, Koffka, Kurt (1886-1941) section, para. 1), Kurt Koffka assisted in establishing the theories of Gestalt psychology. It was Koffka who promoted this new psychology in Europe and introduced it to the United States. He was responsible for systematizing Gestalt psychology into a logical body of theories. He extended Gestalt theories to developmental psychology, and his ideas about, interpretation, perception and learning influenced educational theories and policies. Koffka sustained that infants first perceive and react holistically. Infants, writes Alic (2001, Koffka, Kurt (1886-1941) section, para. 6), are only later able to understand the individual feelings that consist of the whole. Alic, M. (2001). Life & Health Library. Retrieved March 6, 2012 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0005/ai_2699000521/

Hermann Rorschach

Kopp (2011, Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) ~ The Man Who Made Inkblots his Lifes Work section, para. 2) states that the Rorschach inkblot test was developed by Hermann Rorschach, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who lived from 1884 to 1922. As a child he enjoyed Klecksography, the making of far-fetched inkblot pictures. After graduating from high school, he registered in medical school at the University of Zurich, where the thrill in academic circles for psychiatry reminded him of his childhood inkblots. He wondered why different people saw different things in the same inkblots and began showing them to children and analyzing their responses.

Kopp, A. (2011). Literary Fictions: A site about books, writing, and other things. Retrieved March 6, 2012 from http://literaryfictions.com/articles/hermann-rorschach/