Major Psychologists : Vocab

John B Watson

behaviorism; Little Albert Experiment

Ivan Pavlov

classical conditioning; Pavlov's dogs

BF Skinner

child development; theory of operant conditioning in pigeons

Alfred Adler

inferiority complex experiment

Carl Jung

Jungian theory; collective unconscious vs personal unconscious

Sigmund Freud

psychoanalysis; ego/superego; psychosexual stages of development

Anna Freud

Child psychoanalysis/psychodynamic therapy; emphasized importance of the ego

Karen Horney

womb envy; feminism contradicts Sigmund Freud

Abraham Maslow

Hierarchy of needs

Carl Rogers

conditions of worth; unconditional positive regard; client-centered therapy

Martin Seligman

positive psychology; learned helplessness

Albert Ellis

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

Jean Piaget

Cognitive development theory in children

Erik Erikson

8 stages of psychological development; cognitive development across the whole lifespan

Lawrence Kohlberg

Moral development in boys

Carol Gilligan

Development of women's morality and sense of self

Elizabeth Loftus

memory/misinformation effect

Hans Eysenck

5 factor model of personality

Albert Bandura

social learning theory, reciprocal determinism

Mary Ainsworth

strange situation studies infants, attachment theory

Mary Whiton Calkins

paired association test

Alfred Binet

Intelligence scale

Wilhelm Wundt

Father of psychology; structuralism apperception; experimental and cultural psychology

Margaret Floy Washburn

animal behavior & development; first woman to earn a phd in psych

Harry Harlow

Rhesus monkey experiment

William James

functionalism; stream of consciousness and theory of emotion

Lev Vygotsky

sociocultural theory

Stanley Milgram

obedience experiment; shock experiment

Philip Zimbardo

Stanford Prison Experiment