Psychology Founders and Experiments to Know

Founder of psychoanalysis (ego)

Sigmund Freud

Dogs begin to salivate at the sound of a bell

Pavlovs experiment

Paired loud noises with a white rat, led to baby being terrified of the rat

Little Albert Experiment

Behaviors followed by satisfying outcomes are likely to be repeated

Thorndikes Law of Effect

Mouse was likely to pull the lever if it gave food, stopped if it received shocks

Skinners Operant Box Conditioning

Two students receive the same bad grade

Optimistic vs Pessimistic Case study

Subject agrees to the obviously wrong majority

Aschs Conformity Experiment

Subjects were given permission to shock “learners”, subjects obeyed no matter how big the shocks got

Stanley Milgram

Extreme behaviors led to the study being terminated after 6 days

Stanford Prison Experiment

Depth perception in infants, more likely to be ignored when a comforting figure was seen on the other side

Visual Cliff Experiment

Limited language acquisition of a severely neglected and isolated 13 year old

Genie Wiley case study

Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Formal Operational and Concrete stages

Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development

Learning occurs through interactions with more knowledgeable others

Vygotskys Social Learning

Secure attachment and Insecure attachment

Ainsworth strange situation experiment

Monkey preferred the cloth monkey for comfort rather than the wired

Harlows Monkey studies

stages of the lifespan

Eriksons Psychological stages

unit two