This document outlines the key founders and theories of major schools of thought in psychology, including structuralism founded by William Wundt who studied sensations to understand consciousness, functionalism founded by William James who focused on the relationship between experience and behavior, behaviorism founded by John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner who believed psychology should be objective and measurable, gestalt psychology founded by Wertheimer, Koffka, and Kohler which viewed perceptions as more than the sum of their parts, and psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud who emphasized the influence of unconscious motives and childhood experiences on behavior.