AP Psychologists Flashcards
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| 7536822554 | Wilhelm Wundt | -Father of Structuralism "Father of psychology" (established the first psychology laboratory in Germany) - study of mental processes - introspection | 0 | |
| 7536822555 | E. B. Titchner | Wundt's student Brought Structuralism to the USA | 1 | |
| 7536822556 | Max Wertheimer | -Gestalt Psychologist -Argued against dividing human thought and behavior into discrete structures -examine a person's total experience -the way we we experience the world is more than perception | 2 | |
| 7536822557 | William James | -founder of functionalism - studied how humans use perception to function in our environment | 3 | |
| 7536822558 | Margaret Floy Washburn | -First woman to earn PhD in Psych | 4 | |
| 7536822559 | Mary Whiton Calkins | -Student of William James -Became first female President of APA Completed PhD at Harvard- didn't receive | 5 | |
| 7536822560 | John B. Watson | -Behavorist - Little Albert | 6 | |
| 7536822561 | Ivan Pavlov | -behavorist -Classical Conditioning - trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell | 7 | |
| 7536822562 | B.F. Skinner | -Behaviorist - Operant conditioning - Trained pigeons and rats | 8 | |
| 7536822564 | Jean Piaget | -Cognitive Development - Devleoped stage theory of cognitive development |  | 9 |
| 7536822566 | Lawrence Kohlberg | -Moral Development - Stage theory of moral development |  | 10 |
| 7536822567 | Sigmund Freud | -Father of psychoanalysis - Believed that unconscious drives and desires guided people's actions. | 11 | |
| 7536822569 | Abraham Maslow | -Humanistic - "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization" |  | 12 |
| 7536822570 | Carl Rogers | -humanistic - founded client-centered therapy - emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth, unconditional positive regard | 13 | |
| 7536822576 | Stanley Milgram | Obedience to authority - had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants -milgram experiment | 14 | |
| 7536822581 | Francis Galton | - developed the statistical concept of correlation - first to demonstrate "normal distribution" could be applied to intelligence |  | 15 |
| 7536822583 | Charles Darwin | Evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker die out) - wrote On the Origin of Species | 16 | |
| 7536822584 | 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 | 17 |