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Important psychologists Flashcards

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Alfred Adler

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Inferiority complex; neo-freudian

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Mary Ainsworth

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“strange situation” ; tested attachment (secure vs. insecure)

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Solomon Asch

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Line study; conformity

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Albert Bandura

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Bobo doll; modeling and observational learning

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Diana Baumrind

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Parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, permissive)

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Aaron Beck

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ; father of conginitive therapy

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Alfred Binet

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IQ test, Stanford Binet

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Paul Broca

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Broca’s area; speech formation

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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First female PhD and first female pres of APA

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Noam Chomsky

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Theory of language; progress through biologically set stages

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Paul Costa and Robert McCrae

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Big Five trait theory

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Charles Darwin

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Father of evolution and natural selection

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Dorothea Dix

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Instituted reforms in asylums

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Herman Ebbinghaus

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Forgetting curve (how quickly we lost the things we learn) ; used nonsense syllables

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Albert Ellis

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Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory (ABC method)

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Erik Erikson

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Psychosocial development (must solve conflict within stage or develop maladaptively)

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Gustav Fechner

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Just noticeable difference - difference threshold

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Leon Festinger

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Cognitive Dissonance

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Sigmund Freud

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Father of pschianalysis

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Francis Galton

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Eugenics - pioneered use of IQ

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John Garcia

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Taste aversion

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Howard Gardner

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theory of multiple intelligences (Naturalistic, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intraperitoneal, logical, linguistic, musical, visual)

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Michael Gazzaniga

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Split-brain patients

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Carol Gilligan

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criticized Kohlberg - only studied men

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Harry Harlow

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Studied attachment behaviors in monkeys - we prefer comfort

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G. Stanley Hall

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First pres of APA

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David Hubel

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Visual cortex and feature detectors

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William James

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first psych textbook, first to offer a psych course in college. James-Lange theory of intelligence (Stimulus then emotion)

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Mary Cover Jones

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Systematic desensitization - mother of behavioral therapy

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Carl Jung

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Collective unconscious (we share a mind that has shared symbols-archetypes), Electra complex

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Alfred Kinsey

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Studied human spectrum of sexuality

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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developmental stages of morality

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Wolfgang Kohler

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insight - used chimps

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Elizabeth Loftus

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studied false memories

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Konrad Lorenz

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Animal imprinting

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Abraham Maslow

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Hierarchy of needs

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Stanley Milgram

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Obedience ; shock experiment

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George A Miller

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Magic 7 STM

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Jean piaget

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Stages of cognitive development, how we change schemas through accommodation and assimilation

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Robert Rescorla

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Higher-order conditioning - works better when it acts as a reliable signal of the appearance of the UCS

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Carl Rogers

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Unconditional positive regard, empathy, active listening

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Stanley Schachter

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Two-factor theory of emotion ; phys stim causes cog appraisal of situation which determines emotion

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Hans Seyle

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General Adaptation Syndrome (body’s resp to constant stress)

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BF Skinner

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Operant conditioning ; Skinner box

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Charles Spearman

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General intelligence (g)

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Roger Sperry

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Split-brain - worked with Michael Gazzaniga

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Robert Sternberg

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Triarchic theory of intelligence (analytical, creative, practical)

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Lewis Terman

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Longitudinal studies; those w higher IQs were mentally healthier and succeeded more

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Edward Thorndike

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Law of effect - reinforcement more potent when revolves in a satisfying effect

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Edward Tolman

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Latent learning, cognitive mats, rat maze

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Lev Vygotsky

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Zone of Proximal development - we do our best learning when it is outside of our skillset and aided by a skilled person

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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second female pres of APA, 1st doctorate

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John watson

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Little Albert, stim generalization and discrimiantion

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Ernst Weber

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Weber’s law - amount of difference needed to cross threshold is proportionate to size of initial stim

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David Weschler

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Weschler scale IQ test - most prominent

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Carl Wernicke

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Wernicke’s area - language comp

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Torsten Wiesel

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studied visual cortex with hubell

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Joseph Wolpe

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Systemic desensitization - w/ mary cover jones

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Wilhelm Wundt

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father of modern psych

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Philip Zimbardo

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Stanford Prison experiment

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