Psych History

Albert bandura :: Social learning theory, Bobo the clown

Alfred binet :: intelligence test

Noam Chomsky :: language acquisition, language is innate

erik erikson :: 8 stages of social development

Carl rodgers :: client-centered therapy

jean piaget :: 4 stages cognitive development

ivan pavlov :: classical conditioning, dog experiments, first experimental model of learning

stanley milgram :: urban psych, obedience, shock experiments

solomon asch :: conformity

b.f. skinner :: premier behavioral psychologist, teaching machines, baby box

john watson :: father of behaviorism, little albert experiment

sigmund freud :: father of modern-day psychology, iceberg brain, id/ego/superego

harry harlow :: monkey experiments, need for affection theory, maternal bonding

alfred adler :: individual psychology, inferiority complex

elizabeth loftus :: long term memory, repressed traumatic memories, false eyewitness accounts

abraham maslow :: hierarchy of needs pyramid

carol gilligan :: moral dilemmas and development of young girls,

lawrence kohlberg :: developed/theorized moral development stages, built off piaget

mary ainsworth :: longitudinal study of mother-infant interaction, ‘strange situation’

willhelm wundt :: father of psychology, father of sensory perception theory

eberg papyrus :: earliest mention of clinical depression

helmholtz :: german psychologist, sensation/perception

william battie :: treatise on madness

avicenna :: emotion and physical response connection

g. stanely hall :: 1st american to earn PhD in psych, president of APA

H ebbinghaus :: memory experiments, forgetting curve

francis galton :: concept of behaviorism

edward thorndike :: law of effect, conditioning

max wertheimer :: gestalt psychology

simon levoy :: neurological explanation for sexuality