Appendix Flashcards
(1870 - 1937)
Austrian psychiatrist: the first disciple of Sigmund Freud to break away to found his own school, Individual Psychology, which evolved such concepts as the inferiority complex and compensation
Adler, Alfred
(1913 - 1999)
U.S. developmental psychologist: assisted John Bowlby in formulating the highly influential attachment theory; later devised the Strange Situation
Ainsworth, Mary Dinsmore Salter
(1890 - 1971)
U.S. psychologist: a founder of experimental social psychology; his approach emphasized individuals over the group, established a behaviorist framework, and advanced experimental methodology; brother of Gordon W. Allport
Allport, Floyd Henry
(1897 - 1967)
U.S. psychologist: a major figure in social psychology; originator of Allport’s Personality Trait Theory and coauthor of two personality inventories - the Allport Vernon Lindzey Study of Values and the Allport AS Reaction Study; brother of Floyd H. Allport
Allport, Gordon Willard
(1908 - 2001)
U.S. psychologist: an important contributor to the discussion of the nature us nurture controversy and, especially, to psychological testing
Anastasi, Anne
(1869 - 1949)
U.S. psychologist: a major spokesperson for the development of psychology as a science in the United States and a leading exponent of functionalism
Angell, James Rowland
(1907 - 1996)
Polish born U.S. psychologist: best known for his contributions to social psychology, especially in showing how social context influences fundamental processes, such as perception (his studies of conformity influenced the research of Stanley Milgram)
Asch, Solomon E.
(1861 - 1934)
U.S. psychologist: an influential figure in the early development of experimental and professional psychology in the United States; A proponent of functionalism and early contributor in developmental psychology
Baldwin, James Mark
(1925 - )
Canadian born U.S. psychologist: best known for his work on Social Learning Theory; especially influential were his studies of observational learning and, in the field of Social Cognitive Theory, of self regulatory processes and their role in motivation and behavior
Bandura, Albert
(1939 - 2006)
German developmental psychologist: helped to define the perspective upon which lifespan developmental psychology is based; with his wife, psychologist Margaret Baltes, described selective optimization with compensation and introduced a method to study adult age differences in cognition that makes use of the concept of reserve capacity
Baltes, Paul
(1899 - 1994)
U.S. developmental psychologist: best known as the developer of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development
Bayley, Nancy
(1911 - 1988)
U.S. psychologist: a founder of behavioral endocrinology and an important comparative psychologist, known especially for research on patterns of sexual behavior
Beach, Frank A.
(1876 - 1943)
U.S. philanthropist: founder of the mental hygiene movement, which helped establish psychology as a discipline in the United States through encouraging the use of mental tests and contributing to the rise of clinical and industrial and organizational psychology
Beers, Clifford
(1899 - 1972)
Hungarian born U.S. physicist: groundbreaking researcher in auditory science, especially his studies of mammalian hearing and on the pattern of movement in the basilar membrane of the inner ear known as the traveling wave
Békésy, Georg von
(1857 - 1927)
Russian neuropathologist: founder of Russia’s first psychophysiological laboratory and first institute for brain research on mental diseases; now credited with playing a greater role than Ivan Pavlov in the introduction of conditioning to psychology
Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikhailovich
(1878 - 1927)
Italian psychologist: his research on optical illusions and time perception contributed to gestalt psychology; later research on posthypnotic states (eg; posthypnotic suggestion) sought to provide evidence for Freud’s concept of repression
Benussi, Vittorio
(1857 - 1911)
French psychologist: often considered the initiator of the modern approach to intelligence testing, especially as the developer of the Binet Simon Scale (Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale)
Binet, Alfred
(1880 - 1952)
U.S. psychologist: the founder of industrial and organizational psychology and a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army mental testing program in World War I
Bingham, Walter Van Dyke
(1857 - 1939)
Swiss psychiatrist: best known for naming schizophrenia and for his theory of its basic underlying symptomatology; advocated psychosocial treatments for people with severe mental illness and introduced occupational therapy
Bleuler, Eugen
(1886 - 1968)
U.S. psychologist: perhaps the most influential defines of the field of experimental psychology from the 1930s through the 1960s
Boring, Edwin Garrigues
(1907 - 1990)
British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst: best known as the developer of Attachment Theory; his most important early work centered on the deleterious effects of maternal deprivation
Bowlby, Edward John Mostyn
(1838 - 1917)
German philosopher and psychologist: his research on the intentionality of mental acts later developed into the field of act psychology and contributed to the debate in artificial intelligence about whether mechanical processes can assume the intentionality of genuine mental acts
Brentano, Franz
(1842 - 1925)
Austrian physician and physiologist: called by Freud the “father of psychoanalysis,” best remembered for his treatment of Austrian social worker and feminist Bertha Pappenheim (known as “Anna O.”), whom he identified as having hysteria; Freud’s technique of free association evaded from the concepts behind Breuer’s methods
Breuer, Josef
(1926 - 1993)
British psychologist: best known for his application of communications engineering and mathematical Decision Theory to psychology
Broadbent, Donald E.