Theoretical psychology names

Locke

association theory: 4 assumptions

Gall

locationism, phrenology

flourens

holism

helmholtz

nerve conduction experiment

Donders

substaction method, reaction time with 3 tasks.

Fechner

(from Weber), logarithmic relation between differences

sternberg

additive factors method, correlation is not necessarily causation

Rummelhart and McMlelland

connectionism

Fodor

both horizontal and vertical faculties

anderson

production system theory: 3 soorten memory (declarative, procedural and working memory)

Kanwisher

central systems are coupled to the frontoparietal cortex

Wundt

challenged association theory with apperception, founder of scientific psychology, Blickpunkt/feld, g factor reflects attentional capability linked to the frontal cortex

J. Cattel

Journal Science, reading goes faster than naming, found no correlations between test scores and school performance

Wiliam James

principles of psychology, stream of unconsciousness, survival value

Mary calkins

memory research using paiared associations

Hall

child study movements, first psychological laboratory in america

George müller

consolidation in retroactive interference

Külpe and Watt

mental set and imageless thought

Tichener

structuralism

James and angel

functionalism

woodworth

columbian bible, dv and IV’s

brenda Milner

studied patient H.M

Simon

return to introspection; tower of hanoi and london, AI, selz procedural memory

posner and raichel

umbrella term for attention. Revival of Watts and donders tasks with PET

Watt

thinking is goal-directed and not based on the strongest association, task instructions (mental set) guide what we retreive. imageless thoughts

Witmer

clinical psychology

Münsterberg

forensic and industrial psychology

Thorndike

operant conditioning, law of effect, educational psychology

watson

behaviorism, continuity hypothesis, little albert study

hull

formulas for the hypothetico-deductive method

tolman

with rats, cognitive maps, learning with little motivation and reward, decline of behaviorism

skinner

denied the existance of free will, defended behaviorism

dehaene

global workspace, attention is necesarry for consciousness, computer models

Lamme

supported Wundt, attention only highlights consciousness

dennet

cartesian theatre criterion

treisman

Feuture intergration theory, focal attention is needed to integrate perceptual features

Galton

twin studies, correlation, normal distribution, bean machine, nature vs nurture

spearman

found positive correlations in contrast to Jcattel, discovery of general intelligence factor g, whole cortex

Wolfgang Köhler

research with chimpanzees

wertheimer

research on soliving problems in humans —> productive thinking

thompson

sampling theory: positive correltations because of overlapping cognitive processes, g does not reflect a single psychological mechanism

R cattel

cultural differences, differences between fluid and crystalized intelligence

kurt Lewin

social psychology, social action research

Barlett

remembering as a constructive process, with meaningfull stories

brown

tip of the tongue and flash bulb memories

G. miller

magic number 7 plus minus 2

broadbent

filter model of selective attention and flowchart

bruner

revival of introspection in studies of thinking, you can organize info that comes in

carpenter

what underlies the raven test, you break problems up in smaller parts with rules

Duncan

damage to frontal lobe has no effect on fluid intelligence, g is linked to frontal and parietal cortex

Bühler

studied influences of family members