People Flashcards

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Sigmund Freud

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Australian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis (PSYCH)

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Ivan Pavlov

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Russian physiologist known for his work in classical conditioning (PSYCH)

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B.F. Skinner

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American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. (PSYCH)

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Abraham Maslow

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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)

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Erik Erikson

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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)

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Jean Piaget

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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)

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Carl Jung

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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)

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Albert Bandura

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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)

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Karen Horney

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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)

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David Reimer

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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)

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Margaret Mead

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American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. (ANTHRO)

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Ruth Benedict

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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)

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Leakey Family

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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)

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Jane Goodall

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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)

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Bronislaw Malinoski

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An anthropologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research were a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. (ANTHRO)

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Raymond Dart

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Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the province Northwest. (ANTHRO)

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Birute Galdikas

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Known in the field of primatology, Galdikas is recognized as a leading authority on orangutans. Prior to her field study of orangutans, scientists knew little about the species. (ANTHRO)

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Dian Fossey

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American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her 1985 murder. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. (ANTHRO)

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Robert Sternberg

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Created the Theory of Intelligence

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Charles Darwin

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English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science. (ANTHRO)

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Karl Marx

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German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. (SOCIO)

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Max Weber

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German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic,” relating Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy. (SOCIO)

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Talcott Parsons

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American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. (SOCIO)

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Charles Cooley

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Created the Looking Glass Theory. The looking-glass self describes the process wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe others view them. (SOCIO)

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George Herbert Mead

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He created Social Behaviourism. He believed that people develop self-images through interactions with other people. He argued that the self, which is the part of a person’s personality consisting of self-awareness and self-image, is a product of social experience. (SOCIO)

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Dorothy Smith

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Canadian sociologist with research interests in a variety of disciplines, including women’s studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies, as well as in certain sub fields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. (SOCIO)

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C. Wright Mills

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C. Wright Mills was a social-conflict sociologist who studied the power structure within the United States. … Mills coined the term sociological imagination, which means awareness between one’s self and the broader social world around them. (SOCIO)

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Emile Durkheim

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Emile Durkheim developed theories of social structure that included functionalism, the division of labor, and anomie. These theories were founded on the concept of social facts, or societal norms, values, and structures. Functionalism is a concept with three integral elements. (SOCIO)

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Auguste Comte

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French philosopher known as the founder French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism. Comte gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject in a systematic fashion. (SOCIO)

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Warren Jeffs

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The President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous Mormon denomination. In 2011, Jeffs was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault, for which he is currently serving a sentence of life plus twenty years. (SOCIO)

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Charles Manson

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American criminal and cult leader. In mid-1967, he formed what became known as the “Manson Family”, a quasi-commune based in California. His followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. (SOCIO)

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David Miscavige

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Leader of the Church of Scientology. His official title is Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center, a corporation that controls the trademarks and copyrights of Dianetics and Scientology. (SOCIO)

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Jim Jones

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American civil rights preacher, faith healer and cult leader who conspired with his inner circle to direct a mass suicide and mass murder of his followers in his jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana. (SOCIO)