AP Psychologists Flashcards

6725618053	Wilhelm Wundt	Father of Structuralism "Father of psychology" (established the first psychology laboratory in Germany) - study of mental processes - introspection	0
6725625936	E. B. Titchner	Wundt's student Brought Structuralism to the USA	1
6725635013	Max Wertheimer	Gestalt Psychologist Argued against dividing human thought and behavior into discrete structures Gestalt psychology tried to examine a person's total experience because the way we we experience the world is more than perception	2
6725618054	William James	Founder of functionalism - studied how humans use perception to function in our environment	3
6725650468	Margaret Floy Washburn	First woman to earn PhD in Psych	4
6725655079	Mary Whiton Calkins	Student of William James Became first female President of APA Completed PhD at Harvard- didn't receive	5
6725618060	John B. Watson	Behavorist - Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat	6
6725618059	Ivan Pavlov	Behavorist Classical Conditioning - trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell	7
6725618062	B.F. Skinner	Behaviorist - Operant conditioning - Trained pigeons and rats	8
6725618080	Hermann Ebbinghaus	- First person to study memory scientifically and systematically - used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well - forgetting curve.	9
6725618064	Jean Piaget	Cognitive Development - Devleoped stage theory of cognitive development	10
6725618071	Erik Erikson	Neo-Freudian - 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development	11
6725618069	Lawrence Kohlberg	Moral Development - Stage theory of moral development	12
6725618057	Sigmund Freud	Father of psychoanalysis - Believed that unconscious drives and desires guided people's actions.	13
6725699452	Lev Vygotsky	Zone of Proximal Development Theory of mind	14
6725618063	Abraham Maslow	Humanistic - "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization"	15
6725618075	Carl Rogers	Humanistic - founded client-centered therapy - emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth, unconditional positive regard	16
6725718535	Alfred Adler	Neo-Freudian Social tensions not sexual tensions Inferiority complex	17
6725618073	Carl Jung	Neo-Freudian - created concept of "collective unconscious" - wrote books on dream interpretation	18
6725618074	Karen Horney	Neo-Freudian - credited with founding women's psychology - criticized Freud's idea of penis envy, saying that it grew out of his assumption that men were superior to women	19
6725618082	Philip Zimbardo	Stanford Prison Experiment/Lucifer Effect - People take on the role of what they feel are proper for the situation	20
6725618078	Solomon Asch	Social Psychology - conformity experiment -- people incorrectly reported lenghts of lines	21
6725618081	Stanley Milgram	Obedience to authority - had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants	22
6725754145	Howard Gardner	Multiple intelligences theory- IQ is too limited	23
6725782217	Spearman	intelligence is mainly a function of a general intelligence g-factor	24
6725793232	Thurston	Intelligence is a function of seven primary mental abilities	25
6725618058	Alfred Binet	Created first intelligence test (Binet-Simon scale)	26
6725618055	Francis Galton	- developed the statistical concept of correlation - first to demonstrate "normal distribution" could be applied to intelligence	27
6725618056	Christian Von Ehrenfels	Founder of Gestalt Psychology	28
6725618065	Charles Darwin	Evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker die out) - wrote On the Origin of Species	29
6725618066	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	30
6725618067	Harry Harlow	Developmental (Attachment Studies) - Studied attachment in monkeys with artificial mothers	31