People Flashcards
Mary Ainsworth
researched the effects of maternal separation on child development - secure vs. insecure attachment
Albert Bandura
Social learning theory/modeling behavior (Bobo); believed that aggression is learned through a process called behavior modeling. He believed that individuals do not actually inherit violent tendencies, but they modeled them after three principles
Diana Baumrind
named the parenting styles - authoritarian, permissive, authoritative
Erik Erikson
Stages of psycho-social development ie. generativity vs stagnation; identity crisis
Sigmund Freud
Stages of development - oral, anal, phallic, etc
Jean Piaget
Stages of development - sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational.
Carol Gilligan
Specialized and wrote books on girl’s development
Harry Harlow
Wire vs. soft monkey-attachment
Kohlberg
Moral development-preconventional, conventional, post conventional
Lorenz
Imprinting (humans don’t) “fly away home”
Vygotsky
Early psychologist who investigated the role of culture in child development
Phineas Gage
railroad worker who had a piece of pipe blow a hole through his head; survived by his personality changed; scientists learned you could manipulate the brain.
Candance Pert and Solomon Snyder
discovered the body produces its own morphine by injecting laboratory animals with morphine.
Joseph Gall
founder of phrenology (thought that characteristics could be determined by bumps on the skull).
Oliver Sacks
neurologist who writes books containing interesting stories about his patients (An Anthropologist from Mars; The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat).
Sandra Witelson
gained access to the brain of Albert Einstein and discovered that a region used for mathematical thinking was 15% wider than the average brain; theorized that either Einstein was born with a gifted brain or that it grew because he used that area of his brain more often.
Hans Burger
invented a machine that could detect, amplify, and record waves of electrical activity in the brain using metal electrodes pasted to the surface of the scalp (EEG).
Heinrich Kluver and Paul Bucy
proved that lesions in the temporal lobe (including the amygdala) calmed ferocious monkeys.
Vernon Mark
Neurosurgeon who implanted electrodes in an overly aggressive patient’s (Julia) brain and recorded the activity of the amygdala to discover if it was making her violent; discovered that high activity in the amygdala was causing violence; Mark performed surgery and destroyed part of her amygdala and caused her fits of rage to go away.
Julia
Overly aggressive patient who suffered from severe fits of rage; Vernon Mark performed surgery to destroy some of her amygdala and lost most of her violent tendencies.
Wilder Penfield
stimulated exposed parts of the cortex during surgery on his epileptic patients and mapped the human cortex in 1947; discovered that certain areas of the brain specialize in receiving sensory information.
Paul Broca
French physician who observed people who have incurred damage in an area of the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere lose the ability to form words to produce fluent speech; region of the brain called Broca’s area.
Carl Wernicke
German neurologist who found that people with damage to a part of the left temporal lobe lose their ability to comprehend speech; region of the brain called Wernicke’s Area.
Gustav Fechner
German physicist who proposed that each side of the brain has its own mind; speculated if the brain was divided in half, you would have two separate streams of consciousness.
