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Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet

intelligence test [stanford-binet]

Aaron Beck

cognitive therapy, thinking colors our feelings, challenge negative thought patterns

Abraham Maslow

humanistic, hierarchy of needs, self actualization

Albert Bandura

observational learning, bobo experiment, reciprocal determinism

Albert Ellis

cognitive therapy, Rational-Emotive therapy, ABC's

Alfred Adler

neo-freudian, motivated by feelings of inferiority rather than sexual instinct

Soloman Asch

conformity studies, line study

B.F. Skinner

behaviorist, operant conditioning, skinner box

Benjamin Wharf

language theorist, linguistic determinism; language affects thinking

Carl Jung

expanded/ modified Freud's views of unconscious, proposing concepts of personal unconscious, collective unconscious, and archetypes

Carl Rogers

humanistic, client-centered therapy, active listening

David Wechsler

developed WISC and WAIS {IQ tests}

Diana Baumrind

parenting styles, authoritarian, permissive, authoritative

Herman Ebbinghaus

memory, nonsense syllables-learning and forgetting curves

Edward Thorndike

law of effect, rewarded behavior is likely to recur

Edward Titchener

structuralism, mind made of structures, objective introspection

Elizabeth Loftus

memory construction, false memories created by leading question, eyewitness identification

Erik Erikson

psychosocial stage theory of development

Leon Festinger

cognitive dissonance

Francis Galton

head size and intelligence

Sigmund Freud

psychoanalytic; ego, id, superego - unconscious

G. Stanley Hall

APA-president, 1st american psych lab

Gordon Allport

social psychology, complexity and persistence of prejudice, trait theorist

Hans Eysenk

trait theorist, Eysenk Personality Questionnaire based on two personality dimensions (introvert / extrovert)

Hans Seyle

general adaptation syndrome and stress response (GAS)

Harry Harlow

attachment/ body contact studies baby monkeys

Howard Gardner

multiple intelligences including musical and body kinesthetic [multiple intelligence theory]

Young-Helmholtz

vision, Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision, 3 color-specific cones

Hubel, Weisel

nobel prize for feature detection in vision

Ivan Pavlov

classical conditioning, salivating dogs to bells

Jane Elliot

blue eye/ brown eye experiment, discrimination

Jean Piaget

cognitive development stage theory

John B. Watson

behaviorism, little albert; conditioned emotions

Karen Horney

neo-freudian, modified and expanded freud's views, social not sexual

L.L. Thurstone

intelligence, seven primary mental abilities

Lawrence Kohlberg

moral development stages theory

Lewis Terman

modified binet's intelligence test, measure of inherited intelligence [stanford-binet]

Max Wertheimer

gestalt, perceptions result from organizaion of sensations according to rules

Stanley Milgram

obedience, shock experiment

Muzafer Sherif

social psychology, studied group processes and conflict

Noam Chomsky

linguist, inborn universal grammar, language acquistion device

Philip Zimbardo

social psychologist, prison experiment

Phineas Gage

Frontal lobe damage linked to behavior, judgement

Robert Sternberg

Triarchic 3 Theory of Intelligence [academic, practical, creative]

Standly Schachter & Jerome Singer

Emotions, two-factor theory; physical arousal and cognitive label

William James

functionalism, 1st psychology textbook

Wilhelm Wundt

first psych lab, structuralism

Walter Cannon & Philip Bard

Emotion, Cannon-Bard theory; physiological response and exprienced emotion are separate and simultaneous

William James & Carl Lange

Emotion, James-Lange theory, physiological response drive the exprienced emotion

Mary Ainsworth

secure & insecure attachment, strange situation experiment

Charles Spearman

general "g" factor intelligence

William Stern

intelligence quotient; (MA/CA X 100 = IQ)