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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