26 psychology nerds ap psych

william james

wrote first psychology textbook (Principles of Psychology) and associated functionalism as behavior rather than a structure

stanley milgram

experiments on obedience/Milgram experiment (would you hurt someone if an authority figure told you to?)

ivan pavlov

classical conditioning on dogs

jean piaget

theory of cognitive development (children of diff ages make diff mistakes because at specific ages they aquire the mental reorganization processes to reformat their thinking)

carl rogers

unconditional positive regard (support the client no matter what they said)

bf skinner

operant conditioning (principle of reinforcement) with rats (if action good->repeat, vice versa)

john b watson

little albert experiment (classical conditioning with humans)

philip g. zimbardo

standford prison experiment

albert bandura

bobo doll story (if a parent beats up a doll, a child will watch and mimic behavior)

noam chomsky

universal grammar (everyone has a tool that helps them organize/pick up any language)

erik erickson

8 stages of development to build identity

Sigmund Freud

"psychoanalytic theory was the first theory of personality" and development of id/ego/superego and son in love with mother guy

carol gilligan

studied gender differences for moral development since women had different moral scales than men

harry harlow

development of emotional needs through experimenting on monkies (children prefer mothers who are nuturing/soft than a mother who just provides food)

carl jung

collective unconcious (everyone has shared elements that connect our experiences as humans through archtypes like heros)

elizabeth loftus

development of misinformation effect (memories being altered due to post event information) and false memory

abraham maslow

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs