AP Psych FAEMUSS PEEPUL

Frances Galton

human traits are genetically inherited

Charles Darwin

theory of evolution

William Wundt

father of modern psychology ( introspection and structuralism )

John Watson

founder of behaviorism ( Little Albert experiment )

Alfred Adler

neo freudian, childhood social tensions crucial for personality formation , ppl primarily search for self-esteem

Carl Jung

developed archetypes + collective unconscious ( introverted + extraverted )

Albert Ellis

Rational Emotive Therapy ( fixes irrational thinking )

Albert Maslow

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
physiological needs, safety, belonging, self esteem, self actualization

Carl Rogers

humanist psychologist, unconditional positive regard (nonjudgemental acceptance) + client centered therapy

BF Skinner

operant conditioning therapy, relationship between behavior and consequences

Ivan Pavlov

classical conditioning (response to stimuli) pavlov’s dog

Noam Chomsky

linguistics, universal grammar

Jean Piaget

stage theory of cognitive development

Erik Erikson

8 stages of psychosocial development

Lawrence Kohlberg

six stages, three levels of moral development

Hans Eysenck

personality is determined by genes

S. Schacter

believed that to experience emotions one must be physically aroused and must label the experiment

Mary Cover Jones

fear can be unlearned (desensitization) little peter experiment

Benjamin Whorf

language influences judgement

robert sternberg

triarchic theory of intelligence
1. academic problem-solving

2. practical intelligence

3. creative intelligence

Howard Gardner

theory of multiple intelligences

Albert Bandura

observational learning

social learning theory

bobo doll experiment

EI Thorndike

law of effect - principle that behavior followed by favorable consequences becomes more likely

Alfred Binet

general IQ test

David Weschler

intelligence test for adults

H. Rorschach

inkblot test

Philip Zimbardo

Stanford Prison Experiment, social roles influence people’s behavior

S. Asch

conformity

Stanley Milgrim

obedience study

Harry Harlow

attachment behavior on monkeys

Sigmund Freud

psychoanalytical theory (id, ego, superego) psychosexual development ( sex drives personality )

Karen Horney

criticized freud, personality is molded by current fears and impulses rather than being, saw humans as craving love and social interaction to drive their needs

H. Ebbinghaus

founder of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology

memory

Ernst Weber

pioneered the first study on JND (Just Noticeable Difference)

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

theory proposes that the terminally ill pass through 5 stages

1. denial

2. anger/resentment

3. bargaining

4. depression

5. acceptance

James Marcia

studied adolescent stage of Erikson

1. foreclosed (parents identity)

2. achieved (own identity)

3. diffused (living day to day, no search)

4. moratorium (actively searching for identity)