Who's Who in Psych

Alfred Adler

Personality, Individual, inferiority, overcompensation, birth order

Mary Ainsworth

Development, strange situation, attachment

Gordon Allport

Personality, trait, cardinal, central

Solomon Asch

Social, conformity, lines study

Albert Bandura

Personality, reciprocal determinism, Social, Bobo, Learning, Observational

Diane Baumrind

Development, parenting styles

Aaron Beck

Abnormal, depression, cognitive triad, attributional style

Alfred Binet

Intelligence, 1st intell test, mental age, Stanford, Binet

Paul Broca

Neuro, broca’s area, speech

Walter Cannon

Emotion, Cannon

Raymond Cattell

Intelligence

Noam Chomsky

Cognition, theory of language acquisition, LAD, nature

Mary Cover Jones

Learning, desensitization, Peter and rabbit

Charles Darwin

History, evolutionary, natural selection, Motivation, instincts

Dorothea Dix

Treatment, humane hospital reform

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Cognition, remembering and forgetting, forgetting curve

Paul Ekman

Emotion, universal facial expressions

Albert Ellis

Treatment, Cognitive, Rational Emotive Therapy, cognitive restructuring

Erik Erikson

Development, Psychosocial stages, discontinuous

Hans Eysenck

Personality, factor analysis, trait, Treatment, effectiveness (2/3)

Leon Festinger

Social, cognitive dissonance, boring task/lie study

James Flynn

Intelligence, Flynn effect, increase in scores, health, nutrition, schools

Sigmund Freud

Personality, Psychosexual stages, id, ego, superego, defense mechanisms, consciousness, repression, Dreams, Wish fulfillment, Treatment, psychoanalysis

John Garcia

Learning, classical conditioning, taste aversions, Garcia effect

Howard Gardner

Intelligence, Multiple Intell (8, linguistic, visual, naturalistic, music…)

G. Stanley Hall

History, 1st APA president

Harry Harlow

Development, cloth mom monkeys, touch

Ernest Hilgard

Consciousness, hypnosis, dissociative theory, hidden observer

Hippocrates

Personality, temperaments, humors

Karen Horney

Personality, neo, Freudian, womb envy

William James

History, functionalism, Emotion, James, Lange theory

Carl Jung

Personality, Analytic theory, temperaments, collective unconscious

George Kelly

Personality, Personal construct theory

Lawrence Kohlberg

Development, Morality, stages, discontinuity

Wolfgang Kohler

Learning, insight theory, Perception, gestalt principles

Elizabeth Kubler

Ross, Development, stages of death and dying

Latane & Darley

Social, bystander intervention, diffusion of responsibility, altruisim

Elizabeth Loftus

Cognition, memory, confabulation, misattribution effect, misinformation effect

Konrad Lorenz

Development, imprinting, critical periods, Motivation, instinct theory

Abraham Maslow

Motivation, Maslow’s hierarchy, Humanist, Personality, Holistic Dynamic theory

Master’s & Johnson

Motivation, sexual response cycle

David McClelland

Motivation, achievement, used TAT

Stanley Milgram, Social, Obedience to authority study, ethics

Walter Mischel

Personality, CAP theory, Impulse control, marshmallow test (emotional intelligence)

Ivan Pavlo

Learning, classical conditioning, contiguity model

Jean Piaget

Development, cognitive development stage theory, nature, discontinuity

Robert Rescorla

Learning, contingency model

Carl Rogers

Personality, ideal, actual self, UPR, Therapy, empathy, active listening, true potential

Rorschach

Testing, projective, inkblot

David Rosenthal

Social, “bloomer study’ self fulfilling prophecy

Julian Rotter

Personality, Social Learning theory, internal, external locus of control

Stanley Schacter

Emotion, Schacter, Singer 2 factor theory, cognitive

Martin Seligman

Learning, learned helplessness, depression

Hans Selye

Stress, general adaptation syndrome

Muzafir Sherif

Social, contact theory, superordinate goals

BF Skinner

Learning, operant conditioning, Cognition, language acquisition, nurture,

Treatment, behavior modification, token economy

Charles Spearman

Intelligence, factor analysis, ‘g’, ‘s’, general and specialized intell

George Sperling

Cognition, sensory memory test

Roger Sperry

Neuro, split brain, epilepsy

Robert Sternberg

Intelligence, triarchic theory (analytic, creative, practical)

Louis Terman

Intelligence, Terman’s termites, Stanford, Binet IQ test, formula, nature

EL Thorndike

Learning, instrumental, law of effect, cat puzzle box

Edward Tolman

Learning, latent, cognitive maps

Walter Triplett

Social, group influence on performance, Social facilitation and impairment

Hermann Von Helmholtz

Sensation, vision, Young, Helmholtz trichromatic theory

Lev Vygotsky

Development, zone of proximal development, sociocultural, nurture

John Watson

Learning, Little Albert, aversive conditioning, father of behaviorism

Weber

Sensation, difference threshold theories, Weber’s law

David Wechsler

Intelligence, created IQ tests, WISC, WPPSI, WAIS to include adults

Carl Wernicke

Neuro, Wernicke’s area, verbal comprehension

Benjamin Whorf, Cognition, linguistic relativity hypothesis

Joseph Wolpe

Treatment, developed Cover, Jones’s systematic desensitization

Wilhelm Wundt

History, structuralism, 1st psych lab

Yerkes

Dodson

Robert Zajonc

Emotion, cognition and affect, mere exposure

Philip Zimbardo

Social, Stanford Prison experiment, social roles