History Flashcards
Founder of object relations therapy (focus on interpersonal relationships)
Melanie Klein
Who believed that women’s issues emerge from sociocultural gender inequalities
Karen Horney
Who thought that behaviour is a function of the individual’s environment?
Kurt Lewin
Founder of child psychoanalysis
Anna Freud
Whose research focused on the importance of social interaction in learning and development?
Lev Vygotsky
Who was one of the founders of the trait perspective of psychology?
Gordon Allport
America’s first African American female psychologist
Inez Beverly Prosser
Who said “what fires together, wires together”
Donald Hebb
Who refined Allport’s traits and determined that there were 16 essential personality factors
Raymond Cattell
Person behind the two wire mother experiment with primates
Harry Harlow
Introduced European existential philosophical and psychological principles to American audiences AND focused on the importance of anxiety as part of the human condition as well as the importance of creating meaning out of experience
Rollo May
Husband and wife behind the famous doll study that investigated children’s views about race
Kenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark
Who was known for her work on gender development and sex differences?
Eleanor Maccoby
Who developed the need theory (motivation in terms of a need for affiliation, power, or achievement)
David McClelland
Who was behind social comparison theory and cognitive dissonance?
Leon Festinger
Who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology who is also behind the paper: “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two?”
George A. Miller
Who conducted research into delayed gratification with his groundbreaking study the “Marshmallow Test?”
Walter Mischel
Who is known for the visual cliff experiment (depth perception is innate)?
Eleanor Gibson
Who is the feminist psychologist that outlined a theory that women’s development happens through relationship and care?
Carol Gilligan
Which psychologist is best known for their work on multiculturalism, cross-cultural counselling, and microaggressions?
Derald Wing Sue
Founder of positive psychology and conducted research on learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
Who is best known for her work in gender studies that includes developing the gender schema theory and researching androgyny?
Sandra Bem
Who is the evolutionary psychologist known for their work on mating strategies in women and men, and how jealousy and other challenging experiences can be adaptive?
David Buss
Who is the founder of attachment theory?
John Bowlby
Who developed the strange situation paradigm?
Mary Ainsworth
