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  • Birth Order Theory
  • Inferiority Complex
  • Conscious over unconscious
  • Founder of Individual Pscyhology
  • Cofounder of Pscyhoanalytic
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Alfred Adler

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  • Created IQ test in 1905 (first widely used IQ Test)

- Believed genetics set upper limits of intelligence

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A. Binet

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  • Founder of Act Psychology = ideating, judging, longing vs hate
  • Contemporary to Wundt
  • Voluntarism, Structuralism and functionalism
  • Introspection
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Brentano Franz

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  • Interested in reflecting on our thinking process or Phenomenology
  • Looked at what the mind does, not what is contained within it
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Brentano Franz

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Groundwork for comparative, developmental, and clinical psychologies

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Brentano Franz

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  • 1st US psych Professor
  • Legitimized Psychology as a science
  • Eugenics
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J.M. Cattell

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  • Hypnosis and hysteria
  • Pioneer of neurology
  • First to describe multiple sclerosis (1870’s
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J.M. Charcot

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  • Father of Evolutionary Theory
  • All life forms came from one common ancestor
  • Theory of Natural Selection
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C. Darwin

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  • Developed library system

- The function of education = educate people in order to have an informed democracy

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J. Dewey

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  • Reformer/crusader to improve mental hospitals in the US (1870-1880’s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Superintendent of army nurses during civil war
  • Got funding for new asylums after civil war (first wave of reform)
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D. Dix

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  • Studied memory (on himself)/nonsense syllables
  • Known for “forgetting curve” and “spacing effect”
  • Researched how people learn/ relearn after a period of time without the information
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H. Ebbinghaus

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  • Studied associationism = complex ideas are created by the combination of simple ideas, which come through experience
  • Magic number 7 +/- 2 (things we can remember with one exposure)
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H. Ebbinghaus

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  • Stages of psychosocial development

- Personality development as a lifelong process

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E. Erikson

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  • Developed Psychophysical Methods (ie: adjustment, limits, constant stimuli)
  • Demonstrated that because the mind was susceptible to measurement and mathematical treatment, psychology had the potential to become a qualified science
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G. Fechner

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  • Developed psychoanalysis with infants and children

- Discovered Erik Erikson

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Anna Freud

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-Understood that many defenses are ego syntonic and can function as a central, organizing feature in someone’s personality
Ex: Reaction formation, niceness, and modesty

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Anna Freud

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalytic

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-Founder of psychoanalysis, psychosexual stages of development, dream interpretation, free association

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Sigmund Freud

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-Mental functions and personality characteristics are located in specific areas of the brain. The size of these areas (measured on the skull surface) reflected the strength of the characteristics
(Phrenology)

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J. Gall

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  • Conducted studies on individual differences
  • One of the leaders in the positivistic approach
  • Attempted to define the measurement of concepts
  • Applied evolutionary theory to mental functions and personality characteristic
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F. Galton

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  • Founder of APA in 1892

- 1st APA president

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G. Stanley Hall

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  • Bridge between existential philosophy and existential psychology
  • The person and the world are inseparable
  • Living authentically - acknowledging the truth about our lives
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M. Heidegger

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Materialism, unity of mind and body

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H. Helmholtz

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Came up with certification and doctoral level training for Clinical Psychologists

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L. S. Hollingsworth

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  • Founder - Feminist Psychology
  • Viewed unhealthy behavior as a response to anxiety
  • Movement: toward/away/or against
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K. Horney

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  • Drive Reduction Theory
  • Mathematical model for behavior
  • Other variables are contingent on the response of the organism: incentives, initial drive, inhibitors
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C. Hull

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  • Founder - Functionalism

- Espoused a form of psychology that was scientific

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W. James

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  • Father of Analytic Psych.

- Collective unconsciousness: shared understanding out of which came archetypes

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C. Jung

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-Insight learning in Chimps (the Aha! Moment)

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W. Kohler

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Field Theory

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K. Lewin

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  • Hierarchy of needs
  • Self-actualization
  • Peak experience
  • Lived with Blackfoot Indian Tribe (mature/community-orientated needs are at the base and individual needs are at the top)
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A. Maslow

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