A. L. Washburn
Swallowed a balloon; measured stomach contractions and hunger pangs
Abraham Maslow
Humanist; Hierarchy of Needs
Alfred Kinsey
Survey about sexual behavior
Ancel Keys
Semi-starvation study
Cannon-Bard
Emotion = Simultaneous physiological arousal and emotional experience
Carl Wernicke
Discovered brain area associated with verbal comprehension, aphasia
Carol Gilligan
Criticized Kohlberg for anti-female morality stages
Diana Baumrind
3 parenting styles(authoritarian, authoritative, permissive)
Elizabeth Loftus
Eyewitness testimony, misinformation effect
Erik Erikson
8 stages of psychosocial development
Harry Harlow
Cloth mom monkeys, contact comfort for attachment
Herman Ebbinghaus
Remembering curve(retention curve), rehearsal, forgetting curve, nonsense syllables
James-Lange
Emotion = Physiological Arousal then emotional experience
Jean Piaget
4 stages of cognitive development, schemas
Konrad Lorenz
Imprinting, critical periods(of birds)
Lawrence Kohlberg
3 stages of moral development
Leon Festinger
Cognitive dissonance theory, people will lie about a boring task
Lev Vygotsky
Inner Speech, scaffolding, zone of proximal development
Mary Ainsworth
Strange situation, attachment styles(secure, avoidant, ambivalent)
Masters & Johnson
Lab experiments about sexual behavior; sexual response cycle
Musafer Sherif
Boy scout camp study; superordinate goals to diffuse conflict
Paul Broca
Studied the brain area associated with speech production, aphasia
Paul Ekman
Microexpressions, Universal facial expressions
Phil Zimbardo
Conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment; power of social roles
Schacter-Singer
Emotion = Physiological Arousal + Cognitively Label
Solomon Asch
Conformity, lines study
Stanley Milgram
Obedience to authority, “shocking” experiment
Thomas Bouchard
Minnesota twins reared apart study; nature/nurture
Wilhelm Wundt
Structuralism, Introspection, 1st psychology lab, father of psychology
William James
Functionalism, wrote 1st Psychology text
Yerkes-Dodson
Optimum level of arousal for performance
Phineas Gage
Early case study of brain damage, railroad spike through frontal lobe, personality change