Final with Linnea Flashcards
Alfred Adler
- Neo-Freudian
- Critiqued Freud in favor of emphasizing social factors
- implemented 2 chairs over a couch and started preventative work
Albert Bandura
- Social learning theory
- Bobo doll experiment (1961)
- Theory of self-efficacy
- Advanced Triadic reciprocality & reciprocal determinism
Aaron Beck
- father of CT & CBT
- cognitive triad (neg view of self, world or environment, and future)
Josef Breuer
- Tx “Fräulein Anna O.” &inspired Freud to investigate the Tx of hysteria w/ the “talking cure”
- “Doctor with the Golden Touch” due to success treating hysteria
- disagreed w/ Freud and say catharsis as key
Mary Whiton Calkins
- 1st female president of the APA in 1905
- Career at Wellesley: 1st psych lab at women’s college;
- studied sensation, memory, paired associates, & self-psych
Edward Casavantes
- Founded the Association of Psychologists por la Raza
- Research: how social scientists were often responsible for creating cultural stereotypes about Latinos
James McKeen Cattell
- Debatably the 1st USA psych professor (U Penn Lab)
- Columbia dismissed for writing anti-draft letters on uni stationary
- Research: mental testing following his own drug experimentation
Jean-Martin Charcot
- Hypnosis and hysteria
- founder of modern neurology”
- Freud worked under him to study hysteria & hypnosis
Noam Chomsky
- MIT linguist
- Vs. Skinner; language is more complex than behaviorism allows
- Creative use of language can be better explained as a central process than a peripheral process.
Mamie & Kenneth Clark
- Some of the 1st black people to earn psych PhD from Columbia (1940-3)
- Research: different color dolls to study children’s attitudes about race; used in Brown v. Board of Ed to end racial segregation in public ed
- Kenneth 1st Black president of APA (1969)
Clever Hans
- Brilliant horse owned by Herr von Osten
- Taught horse math, telling time, keeping calendar
- Horse answer 6% of questions correctly if examiner standing to side; and 89% correct if standing in front of him.
Albert Ellis
- RET renamed REBT
- popularized the ABC model of emotions, later modified to the ABCDE approach
Erik Erikson
-8 stages of psychosocial development:
Anna Freud
- founder of psychoanalytic child psychology
- importance of the ego and its normal “developmental lines”
Sigmund Freud
-psychic structure:
id (instinctual), ego, super-ego (moral)
- libido
- death drive
- associated w/ free-association, transference, dream analysis, and mechanisms of depression, hypnotism
- Pre-sexual shock
- Interpretation of dreams as window to unconscious
G. Stanley Hall
- Hosted meeting to found APA; elected 1st president (1892)
- Founded Child Study Movement
- Considered psych questions w/ evolutionary frame; concept of “norms”
- Recapitulation theory: children recapitulate human evolutionary stages in their development
- Eugenicist: believed “negro races” as earlier stage of human development → saw it as his responsibility to educate black students; more black students received doctorates under him in early decades of 1900s than any other advisor
Karen Horney
- challenged Freud’s anti-feminist bias & stressed social rather than biological determinants of sex diffs; potent critic of Freud’s views of women
- 10 neurotic needs-categorized by moving: towards, against, away from people
Larke Huang
- Director of the Office of Behavioral Health Equity at SAMHSA
- Programs for underserved, culturally and linguistically diverse youth, evaluated community-based programs
- Wants psychologists to advocate for psych-informed public policy
William James
- Father of American Psychology & Founder of Functional Psychology
- philosophy of pragmatism, 2-stage model of free will
-James–Lange theory of emotion:
emotion is the mind’s perception of physiological conditions that result from some stimulus.
-James’ theory of self:
materials, social, spiritual, pure ego
Carl Jung
- Founded analytical psychology
- proposed collective unconscious (deviation from Freud’s libido)
Wolfgang Kohler
- contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology; “The whole is different from the sum of its parts”.
- wrote The Mentality of Apes (1917); observed how chimpanzees solve problems
- vocal against behaviorism
Emil Kraepelin
- founder: modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology, psychiatric genetics
- believed origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction
- credited with the classifying two distinct forms of psychosis (aka: Kraepelinian dichotomy): manic depression and dementia praecox.
- co-discoverer of Alzheimer’s disease
- strong and influential proponent of eugenics and racial hygiene; publications included a focus on alcoholism, crime, degeneration and hysteria
Kurt Lewin
-Lewin’s Equation for behavior: B=ƒ(P,E) → nature and nurture interact
-Force field analysis:
helping or hindering forces
-Leadership climates
-Change process:
1 - unfreezing/overcoming inertia;
2 - change occurs;
3 - freezing of a new crystalized mindset
Little Albert
- Watson & Rayner
- Conditioned fear of white rats w/ loud noise; only 7 pairings required; generalized fear response to rabbit, dog, cotton, & sealskin coat