13779072550 | Wilhelm Wundt | established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany | 0 | |
13779072551 | Wilhelm Wundt | father of psychology | 1 | |
13779072552 | William James | founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment | 2 | |
13779072553 | Ivan Pavlov | discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell | 3 | |
13779072554 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind. Father of psychoanalysis. | 4 | |
13779072555 | Alfred Binet | Created first intelligence test for Parisian school children | 5 | |
13779072556 | Edward Thorndike | behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence | 6 | |
13779072557 | John Watson | Early behaviorist; famous for the "Little Albert" experiments on fear conditioning | 7 | |
13779072558 | Jean Piaget | Four stage theory of cognitive development: 1. sensorimotor, 2. preoperational, 3. concrete operational, and 4. formal operational. He said that the two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth-assimilation and accomodation | 8 | |
13779072559 | Benjamin Whorf | language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think | 9 | |
13779072560 | Erik Erikson | Known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development | 10 | |
13779072561 | Carl Rogers | Humanisic; self-concept and unconditional positive regard drive personality | 11 | |
13779072562 | B.F. Skinner | Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by training pigeons and rats | 12 | |
13779072563 | B.F. Skinner | 1904-1990; Field: behavioral; Contributions: created techniques to manipulate the consequences of an organism's behavior in order to observe the effects of subsequent behavior; Studies: Skinner box | 13 | |
13779072564 | Harry Harlow | development, contact comfort, attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire "mothers;" showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort | 14 | |
13779072565 | Solomon Asch | 1907-1996; Field: social psychology; Contributions: studied conformity, found that individuals would conform even if they knew it was wrong; Studies: conformity, opinions and social pressures | 15 | |
13779072566 | Abraham Maslow | Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization" | 16 | |
13779072567 | Mary Ainsworth | 1913-1999; Field: development; Contributions: compared effects of maternal separation, devised patterns of attachment; Studies: The Strange Situation-observation of parent/child attachment | 17 | |
13779072568 | Stanley Schachter | Developed "Two-Factor" theory of emotion; experiments on spillover effect | 18 | |
13779072569 | Albert Bandura | researcher famous for work in observational or social learning including the famous Bobo doll experiment | 19 | |
13779072570 | Lawrence Kohlberg | moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is "Heinz" who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication and why? (3 stage theory of moral development) | 20 | |
13779072571 | Noam Chomsky | theorist who believed that humans have an inborn or "native" propensity to develop language | 21 | |
13779072572 | Stanley Milgram | obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions | 22 | |
13779072573 | Phil Zimbardo | Prison study; You begin acting, then believing you are that character in reality. | 23 | |
13779072574 | Howard Gardner | devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, linguistic, musical, interpersonal, naturalistic | 24 | |
13779072575 | Elizabeth Loftus | Her research on memory construction and the misinformation effect created doubts about the accuracy of eye-witness testimony | 25 | |
13779072576 | Sigmund Freud | founder of psychoanalysis | 26 | |
13779072577 | William James | published the first psychology textbook | 27 | |
13779072578 | Solomon Asch | line conformity experiment | 28 |
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