6725618053 | Wilhelm Wundt | Father of Structuralism "Father of psychology" (established the first psychology laboratory in Germany) - study of mental processes - introspection | 0 | |
6725625936 | E. B. Titchner | Wundt's student Brought Structuralism to the USA | 1 | |
6725635013 | Max Wertheimer | Gestalt Psychologist Argued against dividing human thought and behavior into discrete structures Gestalt psychology tried to examine a person's total experience because the way we we experience the world is more than perception | 2 | |
6725618054 | William James | Founder of functionalism - studied how humans use perception to function in our environment | 3 | |
6725650468 | Margaret Floy Washburn | First woman to earn PhD in Psych | 4 | |
6725655079 | Mary Whiton Calkins | Student of William James Became first female President of APA Completed PhD at Harvard- didn't receive | 5 | |
6725618060 | John B. Watson | Behavorist - Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat | 6 | |
6725618059 | Ivan Pavlov | Behavorist Classical Conditioning - trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell | 7 | |
6725618062 | B.F. Skinner | Behaviorist - Operant conditioning - Trained pigeons and rats | 8 | |
6725618080 | Hermann Ebbinghaus | - First person to study memory scientifically and systematically - used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well - forgetting curve. | ![]() | 9 |
6725618064 | Jean Piaget | Cognitive Development - Devleoped stage theory of cognitive development | ![]() | 10 |
6725618071 | Erik Erikson | Neo-Freudian - 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development | ![]() | 11 |
6725618069 | Lawrence Kohlberg | Moral Development - Stage theory of moral development | ![]() | 12 |
6725618057 | Sigmund Freud | Father of psychoanalysis - Believed that unconscious drives and desires guided people's actions. | 13 | |
6725699452 | Lev Vygotsky | Zone of Proximal Development Theory of mind | 14 | |
6725618063 | Abraham Maslow | Humanistic - "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization" | ![]() | 15 |
6725618075 | Carl Rogers | Humanistic - founded client-centered therapy - emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth, unconditional positive regard | 16 | |
6725718535 | Alfred Adler | Neo-Freudian Social tensions not sexual tensions Inferiority complex | 17 | |
6725618073 | Carl Jung | Neo-Freudian - created concept of "collective unconscious" - wrote books on dream interpretation | 18 | |
6725618074 | Karen Horney | Neo-Freudian - credited with founding women's psychology - criticized Freud's idea of penis envy, saying that it grew out of his assumption that men were superior to women | 19 | |
6725618082 | Philip Zimbardo | Stanford Prison Experiment/Lucifer Effect - People take on the role of what they feel are proper for the situation | 20 | |
6725618078 | Solomon Asch | Social Psychology - conformity experiment -- people incorrectly reported lenghts of lines | ![]() | 21 |
6725618081 | Stanley Milgram | Obedience to authority - had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants | 22 | |
6725754145 | Howard Gardner | Multiple intelligences theory- IQ is too limited | 23 | |
6725782217 | Spearman | intelligence is mainly a function of a general intelligence g-factor | 24 | |
6725793232 | Thurston | Intelligence is a function of seven primary mental abilities | 25 | |
6725618058 | Alfred Binet | Created first intelligence test (Binet-Simon scale) | 26 | |
6725618055 | Francis Galton | - developed the statistical concept of correlation - first to demonstrate "normal distribution" could be applied to intelligence | ![]() | 27 |
6725618056 | Christian Von Ehrenfels | Founder of Gestalt Psychology | 28 | |
6725618065 | Charles Darwin | Evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker die out) - wrote On the Origin of Species | 29 | |
6725618066 | Phineas Gage | Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior - case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function | 30 | |
6725618067 | Harry Harlow | Developmental (Attachment Studies) - Studied attachment in monkeys with artificial mothers | ![]() | 31 |
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