Modules 31-41 unit 5 part 1-2 Ap Psychology important people

Hermann Ebbinghaus

the first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well

Richard Atkison and Richard Shiffrin

3 stage model of memory formation.

George A. Miller

made famous the phrase: "the magical number 7, plus or minus 2" when describing human memory

Eric Kandel

known for learning and memory studies on sea slugs; eventually mice and other mammals

Elizabeth Loftus

Her research on memory construction and the misinformation effect created doubts about the accuracy of eye-witness testimony

Robert stenberg

Triarchic theory of intelligence: analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, practice intelligence

Wolfgang Kohler

Gestalt psychologist that first demonstrated insight through his chimpanzee experiments. He noticed the solution process wasn't slow, but sudden and reflective.

Amos Tversky

A key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias

Daniel Kahneman

an Israeli psychologist and Nobel laureate, who is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonistic psychology.

Steven Pinker

Linguist that believed that we learn language from the environment

Noam Chomsky

language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition, stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language, humans have an inborn native ability to develop language

Paul Broca

discovered area in the brain (named for him) in the left frontal lobe responsible for language production

Carl Wernicke

an area of the brain (in the left temporal lobe) involved in language comprehension and expression was named for him because he discovered it

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Famous for describing concept of "liguistic determinism"

Charles Spearman

creator of "g-factor", or general intelligence, concept

L. L. Thurstone

proposed that intelligence consisted of 7 different primary mental abilities

Howard Gardner

devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, linguistic, musical, interpersonal, naturalistic

Francis Galton

interested in link between heredity and intelligence; founder of the eugenics movement

Alfred Binet

1857-1911; Field: testing; Contributions: general IQ tests, designed test to identify slow learners in need of remediation-not applicable in the U.S. because too culture-bound (French)

Lewis Terman

revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life

David Wechsler

Developed WAIS and WISC (IQ tests)

Carol Dweck

Mindsets. Importance of student's beliefs about their own intelligence. Wellbeing.