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| 6713262486 | William James | recognized for writing the Principles of Psychology, founder of Functionalism, and created emotion theory with colleague Carl Lang |  | 0 |
| 6713268513 | Charles Darwin | recognized for the theory of evolution |  | 1 |
| 6713268514 | Dorothea Dix | Nineteenth-century reformer who protested the practice of confining the mentally ill in prisons and whose labors led to the expansion and improvement of mental hospitals. |  | 2 |
| 6713270514 | G. Stanley Hall | founder of the APA. and theory of Storm and Stress |  | 3 |
| 6713270515 | B.F. Skinner | Behaviorist known for the theory of operant conditioning |  | 4 |
| 6713272333 | John B. Watson | Known for the "Little Albert" experiment where he classically conditioned a baby to be afraid of rats |  | 5 |
| 6713272334 | Wilhelm Wundt | opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany to study introspection and founded Structuralism |  | 6 |
| 6713274219 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior |  | 7 |
| 6713274220 | Carl Rogers | known as the father of client-centered (humanistic) therapy |  | 8 |
| 6713275865 | Jean Piaget | Cognitive psychologist known for his developmental theory including Servomotor; Pre-operational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational Stage |  | 9 |
| 6713280163 | Albert Bandura | Social-Cognitive Psychologist known for his Bobo Doll study on observational learning |  | 10 |
| 6713282528 | Paul Broca | celebrated for his discovery of the speech production center of the brain located in the frontal lobes |  | 11 |
| 6713282529 | Carl Wernicke | Known for discovery of the area of the brain involved in understanding language located in the temporal lobe |  | 12 |
| 6713286946 | Ernest Hilgard | famous in the 1950s for his research on hypnosis, especially with regard to pain control and the "hidden observer" |  | 13 |
| 6713288116 | Robert Rescorla | Showed that in classical conditioning, pairing two stimuli doesn't always produce the same level of conditioning. Conditioning works better if the conditioned stimulus acts as a reliable signal that predicts the appearance of the unconditioned stimulus. |  | 14 |
| 6713289685 | Edward Tolman | Behaviorist studied latent learning in rats through maze learning (learning which is not apparent in the learner's behavior at the time of learning, but which manifests later when a suitable motivation and circumstances appear) |  | 15 |
| 6713289686 | Lawrence Kholberg | Known for his moral development theory including Pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional |  | 16 |
| 6713291175 | Harry Harlow | best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development. |  | 17 |
| 6713291176 | Lev Vygotsky | best known for being an educational psychologist with a sociocultural theory. This theory suggests that social interaction leads to continuous step-by-step changes in children's thought and behavior that can vary greatly from culture to culture |  | 18 |
| 6713293161 | Carol Gilligan | American psychologist known for her research in gender issues, ethical decision making, and hierarchies |  | 19 |
| 6713293162 | Erick Erickson | developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst, best known for formulating the Psychosocial Stages of Development which outlined personality development from birth to old age |  | 20 |
| 6713295089 | Abraham Maslow | best known for hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. |  | 21 |
| 6713295090 | Hans Selye | first person to identify stress as a medical issue and its effects on people. Known as the "father of stress research" |  | 22 |
| 6713297780 | Alfred Kinsey | most known for his research regarding human sexual behavior. ... His books "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948) and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953) were groundbreaking in the field of human sexuality and human behavior in general |  | 23 |
| 6713301113 | Stanley Schacter | best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion |  | 24 |
| 6713301114 | Noam Chomsky | American linguist who contributed greatly to Cognitive psychology through language research. Believed children were pre-wired to learn language. | 25 | |
| 6713303077 | Hermann Ebbinghaus | pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve | 26 | |
| 6713303078 | Wolfgang Kohler | was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology along with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka. He is also famous for his description of insight learning which he tested on animals, particularly chimpanzees. | 27 | |
| 6713310800 | Charles Spearman | Developed his two-factor theory of intelligence using factor analysis. His research not only led him to develop the concept of the g factor of general intelligence, but also the s factor of specific intellectual abilities. | 28 | |
| 6713310801 | Robert Sternberg | Best known for Triarchic Theory of Intelligence which stated there are three types of intelligence: Analytical, Practical, and Creative | 29 | |
| 6713312250 | David Wechsler | He developed well-known intelligence scales, such as the scale for adults (WAIS) and the scale for children (WISC). | 30 | |
| 6713312251 | Francis Galton | pioneered the fields of eugenics and psychometrics, and was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence. | 31 | |
| 6713315495 | Howard Gardner | American developmental psychologist who developed the theory of multiple intelligences. He proposed that people have different ways of processing stimuli and information and theorized that these different types of intelligence mostly work independently of each other. | 32 | |
| 6713318068 | Alfred Binet | developed the first Intelligence Test in collaboration with Theodore Simon. The test was developed in order to identify children with learning disabilities so that they might be placed in a special class. The scale was composed of thirty tasks, including items on memory, vocabulary, verbal ability, and reasoning. | 33 | |
| 6713320964 | Stanley Milgram | Social Psychologist who is most well-known for conducting a series of controversial experiments on Obedience to Authority Figures | 34 | |
| 6713320965 | Philip Zimbardo | is known for leading the Stanford Prison Study, a controversial experiment which investigated the psychological effects of being a prisoner or prison guard. In the experiment, college students were randomly assigned to become prisoners or guards. | 35 | |
| 6713324160 | Solomon Ash | His primary areas of research included impression formation, prestige and conformity and the nature of group pressure. |  | 36 |
| 6713332736 | Leon Festinger | developed the theories of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. | 37 | |
| 6713339929 | Mary Ainsworth | developmental psychologist who became known for her work concerning early emotional attachment of babies to their primary caregivers in the "Strange Situation" |  | 38 |
