Hispanic Heritage in Psychology Hispanic
Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15th to October 15th and the Psychology Department would like to celebrate the diversity of our students and faculty members! To do this, we are shedding the light on those of Hispanic Heritage in the field of Psychology who have left a lasting impression on the field.
The first of many is Juan Luis Vives. He was born in 1493 in Valencia, Spain. According to psychology.okstate.edu, he was one of the first people to see the study of Psychology as a useful tool for all disciplines and was one of the earliest advocates to study learning and memory. This was long before the acclaimed "Father of Psychology", Wilhelm Wundt. Wilhelm was a German who was recorded as the first person to call himself a psychologist. So who really was the first psychologist? Should we say it is the first person to study it or the first person of modern psychology? History is a tangled mess, we are not here to debate, but to enlighten.