Important psychologists Flashcards
Alfred Adler
Inferiority complex; neo-freudian
Mary Ainsworth
“strange situation” ; tested attachment (secure vs. insecure)
Solomon Asch
Line study; conformity
Albert Bandura
Bobo doll; modeling and observational learning
Diana Baumrind
Parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, permissive)
Aaron Beck
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ; father of conginitive therapy
Alfred Binet
IQ test, Stanford Binet
Paul Broca
Broca’s area; speech formation
Mary Whiton Calkins
First female PhD and first female pres of APA
Noam Chomsky
Theory of language; progress through biologically set stages
Paul Costa and Robert McCrae
Big Five trait theory
Charles Darwin
Father of evolution and natural selection
Dorothea Dix
Instituted reforms in asylums
Herman Ebbinghaus
Forgetting curve (how quickly we lost the things we learn) ; used nonsense syllables
Albert Ellis
Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory (ABC method)
Erik Erikson
Psychosocial development (must solve conflict within stage or develop maladaptively)
Gustav Fechner
Just noticeable difference - difference threshold
Leon Festinger
Cognitive Dissonance
Sigmund Freud
Father of pschianalysis
Francis Galton
Eugenics - pioneered use of IQ
John Garcia
Taste aversion
Howard Gardner
theory of multiple intelligences (Naturalistic, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intraperitoneal, logical, linguistic, musical, visual)
Michael Gazzaniga
Split-brain patients
Carol Gilligan
criticized Kohlberg - only studied men