AP Psych-Important People

Wundt

Father of Psych: Introspection

Wertheimer

Gestalt Psych

Titchner

Structuralism

James

Functionalism

Watson

Behaviorism: Little Albert Study

Freud

Psychoanalytic, dream analysis, free association, structure of personality, stages of development, defense mechanisms

Milgram

Obedience, Ethics

Broca

left frontal lobe: associated with expressive language

Wernike

left frontal lobe: receptive language

Pavlov

Classical Conditioning: dogs

Thorndike

Instrumental learning: cats, law of effect

Skinner

Operant conditioning: rats and pigeons; Behaviorist

Tolman

Latent learning: cognitive maps

Bandura

Observational learning: Bobo Dolls, Social-Cognitive Theory

Ebbinghaus

Forgetting: Decay Model

Chornsky

(Native Theorist) Inherent existence of sets of cognitive structures

Whorf

Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

Washoe, Sara, and Koko

Ape language studies

Jung

Collective unconscious, archetypes, psychanalytic

Horney

Basic childhood anxiety; psychanalytic

Erikson

Life crisis; psycho-social development; psychoanalytic

Adler

Inferiority complex, psychoanalytic

Piaget

Stages of Cognitive Development: Cognitive Theorist

Rogers

Client-centered; unconditional positive regard; transactional analysis

Albert Ellis

Rational emotive therapy; cognitive theorist

Abraham Maslow

Hierarchy of Needs, Humanistic

Sheldon

Somatotyping: endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph

Binet

IQ

Eysenck

Biological model of personality; trait-type hierarchy

Harlow

Monkey Studies; Attachment

Lorenz

Survival of the Fittest Theory” and imprinting

Phineas Gage

Railroad Spike; damaged (limbic system) emotions/motivational control center

Aaron Beck

Cognitive therapy treating depression

Murray

Need to achieve; TAT

Allport

Trait Approach-cardinal, central, secondary

Cattel

Crystallized Fluid Intelligence

Kelley

Personal Construct Theory

Mishel

Social-learning theory

Gilligan

examined moral differences between boys and girls based on social rules and ethic of caring and responsibility (turtle and hare scenario)