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AP Psychology-Famous Psychologists

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Developmental Psychologist, placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attatchment to parents
Social Psycholigist, did a conformity experiment where people incorrectly reported length of lines, also did a impression formation study-professor was warm or cold
Learning and Personality, came up with social-learning theory (modeling), also came up with reciprocal determinism (triadic recriprocality) self-efficacy
Testing and Individual Differences, Developmental Psychologist, creator of the first intelligence test
Cognition, theorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition
Developmental Psychology, psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages), Neo-Freudian
Personality and states of consciousness psychosexual stage theory of personality (oral, anal, phallic, and adult genital), stress importance of unconscious and sexual drive, came up with Psychoanalytic therapy, had a theory of dreaming
Developmental Psychology, challenged the universality of Kohlberg's moral development theory
Developmental Psychology, experimented with infant monkeys and attachment
Sensation and Perception, Discovered feature detectors, groups of neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different types of visual stimuli
methods, and history and approaches, published The Principles of Psychology (psychology's first textbook), functionalism
Developmental psychology, stage theory of moral development (preconventional, conventional, and postconventional)
cognition, demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory
Motivation and Emotion, and Treatment of psychological disorders, humanistic psychologist, came up with hierarchy of needs, self-actualization
Social Psychology, obedience studies (participants think they are shocking a learner)
Learning, classical conditioning studies with dogs and salivation
Developmental Psychology, stage theory of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations)
Learning, developed the contingency model of classical conditioning
Treatment of Psychological Disorders, and Personality, Humanistic psychologist-person (client)-centered therapy and unconditional positive regard, came up with self theory of personality
Motiviation and Emotion, Two-factor theory of emotion
Learning, reinforcement, operant conditioning, invented Skinner box
Learning, father of behaviorism, Baby Albert experiment-classically conditioned fear
cognition, the linguistic relativity hypothesis
History and Approaches, set up the first psychological laboratory in an apartment near the university at Leipzig, Germany, theory of structuralism

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