Robert S. Woodworth

Robert Sessions Woodworth ( born October 16, 1869 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, † July 4, 1962 in New York) was in the first half of the 20th century, an influential American psychologist.

His first book, published in 1921 Psychology: A study of mental life was launched again and was for generations of American students, the first introduction to psychology. His 1938 book published in Experimental Psychology - and particularly here in 1954 written by Harold H. Schlosberg second edition - was hardly less successful.

In the 1929 published edition of the first-mentioned text Woodworth introduced the term stimulus - organism -response ( SOR) to describe his functionalist approach to psychology and the difference with the simple stimulus-response (SR ) ( stimulus-response model) approach of to emphasize behaviorism.

In World War Woodworth has launched the Woodworth Personal Data Survey ( WPDS ) into the life of which it is said that she was the first personality test. The WPDS was designed to to detect the possibility of a " Protect grave shock" for new recruits. Even if the test was developed too late to be used operationally, he nevertheless had a great impact on the designs of later personality tests.

• Psychologist
• Americans
• Born in 1869
• Died in 1962
• Man