History of Psychology Quiz

Chomsky

Showed how we acquire language and organize our knowledge

B.F Skinner

Your identity of the sum total of stimulus response pairings you have ever had. As a result, you have no free will and are a slave to your environment

David Buss

Each of our behaviours must be genetically determined and therefore must have an adaptive advantage or else they wouldn’t be happening

Kenneth Clark

Showed that even young children have stereotypes, meaning that they must have been absorbed through the society or taught rather than learned through experience

Erik Erikson

At your age you should be learning your identity and gaining virtue of faithfulness, or fidelity, to that identity

Kurt Lewin

Gestalt psychology

Superego

Your sense of who you should be downloaded into you by society

Carl Rodger

Each person has a self-concept that seeks to grow troubles in your life occur when something blocks this growth, then you’ll need to sit with someone and talk

Wilhelm Wundt

First psychology faculty

G. Stanley Hall

Founded the APA

Aristotle

Associationism

Structuralism

Approach that used mostly introspection

John B. Watson

Behaviourist - founder of modern advertising

Ego

Your sense of self, it first arrived when you were hungry and no one was there to feed you

William James

Fucntionalism

Ivan Pavlov

Conditioning

Freud

Psychoanalysis

Abraham Maslow

When all your needs get met, you’ll eventually become unhappy as you will be driven to satisfy higher needs and when all those higher needs get met, you’ll seek out peak experiences alone, or with your fee close personal friends

War

Caused the fields of clinical therapy, mental injury, and personality/intelligence testing to appear

Id

Your innate desires, have to be suppressed for society to function

C.G Jung

You individuate yourself using a storehouse of identities from your ancestral past among other things. That’s why Dumbledore, Obi-Wan, and Gandalf are really the same person

James Olds

Mapped the brain by electrically stimulating the surface and observing reaction

Piaget

Showed how our organized knowledge, called schemas, are formed and affect our behaviour, especially as we grow and develop