People Flashcards
Sigmund Freud
Australian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis (PSYCH)
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist known for his work in classical conditioning (PSYCH)
B.F. Skinner
American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. (PSYCH)
Abraham Maslow
American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. (PSYCH)
Erik Erikson
German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. (PSYCH)
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called “genetic epistemology”. Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. (PSYCH)
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. (PSYCH)
Albert Bandura
A Canadian-American psychologist. The social learning theory of Bandura emphasizes the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others. (PSYCH)
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis. (PSYCH)
David Reimer
Canadian man born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. (PSYCH)
Margaret Mead
American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. (ANTHRO)
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict was a pioneering anthropologist who became America’s leading specialist in the field, best known for her “patterns of culture” theory. Her book by that name revolutionized anthropological study, igniting the work of the culture and personality movement within anthropology. (ANTHRO)
Leakey Family
The Leakey family is a British and Kenyan family consisting of a number of notable military figures and archaeologists of the 20th and 21st centuries. (ANTHRO)
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960. (ANTHRO)
Bronislaw Malinoski
An anthropologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research were a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. (ANTHRO)