Comprehensive Psychology: History, Biological Bases, Development, and Social Psychology

Mary Whiton Calkins

Student of James - 1st female president of the APA

Charles Darwin

Evolutionary perspective - natural selection

Dorothea Dix

Mental health activist - 1st mental health asylums

Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis - unconscious mind

G. Stanley Hall

1st president of the APA

William James

Functionalist

Ivan Pavlov

Behaviorist

Jean Piaget

Cognitive development

Carl Rogers

Humanistic

B.F. Skinner

Behaviorist

Margaret Floy Washburn

1st woman to receive a Psychology Ph.D

John B. Watson

Behaviorist

Wilhelm Wundt

Structuralist

Paul Broca

Speech production (motor)

Michael Gazzaniga / Roger Sperry

Split brain research

Carl Wernicke

Speech comprehension (sensory)

Mary Ainsworth

Mother - infant attachment

Albert Bandura

Development - nurture

Diana Baumrind

Parenting styles (3 types)

Erik Erikson

Psychosocial development (8 stages)

Carol Gilligan

Gender differences in social development

Harry Harlow

Attachment

Lawrence Kohlberg

Morality (3 stages)

Konrad Lorenz

Imprinting - geese

Lev Vygotsky

Development - nurture

Gustav Fechner

Absolute threshold - Weber's Law

David Hubel/Torsten Wiesel

Feature detectors - nerve cells respond to specific features of a stimulus

Ernst Weber

Just noticeable difference is proportional

Ernest Hilgard

Hypnosis - dissociation

John Garcia

Taste aversion

Robert Rescorla

Classical conditioning

Edward Thorndike

Law of effect

Edward Tolman

Operant conditioning

Noam Chomsky

Nature - language development

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Forgetting curve

Wolfgang Kohler

Chimp experiment - insight

Elizabeth Loftus

False memories

George A. Miller

Memory - magical number 7

Alfred Binet

Original IQ tests

Francis Galton

Correlation (regression towards the mean) / inherited intelligence

Howard Gardner

Multiple intelligences

Charles Spearman

G-Factor Intelligence

Robert Sternberg

Analytical / creative / practical intelligences

Louis Terman

Stanford-Binet IQ test

David Wechsler

WAIS - children intelligence test

Alfred Kinsey

Sexual motivation

Stanley Schachter

2 factor theory - cognitive appraisal

Hans Selye

General Adaptation Syndrome (alarm/resistance/exhaustion)

Alfred Adler

Inferiority complex - unconscious lack of self worth

Paul Costa/Robert McCrae

Big 5

Carl Jung

Collective unconscious / personality traits

Abraham Maslow

Humanistic - Hierarchy of Needs

Aaron Beck

Cognitive therapy

Albert Ellis

Rational emotive behavioral therapy

Mary Cover Jones

Behavioral therapy

Joseph Wolpe

Behavioral therapy - systematic desensitization

Soloman Asch

Conformity - lines

Leon Festinger

Cognitive dissonance

Stanley Milgram

Obedience to authority - shocks

Philip Zimbardo

Power of situations and roles - S.P.E.