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23695223Mary AinsworthDevelopment Psychology- Placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attachment to parents
23695224Solomon AschSocial Psychology- Conformity experiment and Impression formation study
23695225Solomon AschConformity experiment- people incorrectly reported lengths of lines
23695226Solomon AschImpression formation study- professor was warm or cold
23695227Albert BanduraLearning and Personality: Social-learning theory (modeling), Reciprocal determinism (triadic reciprocality), Self-efficacy
23695228Alfred BinetTesting and Individual Differences, Development Psychology, creator of first intelligence test
23696681Noam ChomskyCognition- Theorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition
23696682Erik EriksonDevelopmental Psychology- Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages); Neo- Freudian
23778711Sigmund FreudPersonality and States of Consciousness
23778712Sigmund FreudPsychosexual stage theory of personality (oral, anal, phallic, adult genital)
23778713Sigmund FreudStressed importance of unconscious and sexual drive
23778714Sigmund FreudPsychoanalytic therapy
23778715Sigmund FreudTheory of dreaming
23778716Carol GilliganDevelopmental Psychology- challenged Kohlberg's moral development theory
23778717Harry HarlowDevelopmental Psychology- Experimented with infant monkeys and attachment
23849206David Hubel and Torsten WieselSensation and Perception: Discovered feature detectors, groups of neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different types of visual stimuli
23849207William JamesMethods, and History and Approaches: Published The Principles of Psychology, psychology's first textbook; functionalism
23849208Lawrence KohlbergDevelopment Psychology: Stage theory of moral development (preconventional, conventional, postconventional)
23849209Elizabeth LoftusCognition: Demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory
23850998Abraham MaslowMotivation, Emotion and Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Humanistic psychologist, Hierarchy of needs, self-actualization
23850999Stanley MilgramSocial Psychology: Obedience studies- participants think they are shocking a learner
23859765Ivan PavlovLearning: Classicial conditioning studies with dogs and salivation
23859766Jean PiagetDevelopment Psychology: Stage theory of cognitive development (sensorimoter, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations)

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