People to Know Flashcards
- Birth Order Theory
- Inferiority Complex
- Conscious over unconscious
- Founder of Individual Pscyhology
- Cofounder of Pscyhoanalytic
Alfred Adler
- Created IQ test in 1905 (first widely used IQ Test)
- Believed genetics set upper limits of intelligence
A. Binet
- Founder of Act Psychology = ideating, judging, longing vs hate
- Contemporary to Wundt
- Voluntarism, Structuralism and functionalism
- Introspection
Brentano Franz
- Interested in reflecting on our thinking process or Phenomenology
- Looked at what the mind does, not what is contained within it
Brentano Franz
Groundwork for comparative, developmental, and clinical psychologies
Brentano Franz
- 1st US psych Professor
- Legitimized Psychology as a science
- Eugenics
J.M. Cattell
- Hypnosis and hysteria
- Pioneer of neurology
- First to describe multiple sclerosis (1870’s
J.M. Charcot
- Father of Evolutionary Theory
- All life forms came from one common ancestor
- Theory of Natural Selection
C. Darwin
- Developed library system
- The function of education = educate people in order to have an informed democracy
J. Dewey
- 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)
D. Dix
- 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
H. Ebbinghaus
- 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)
H. Ebbinghaus
- Stages of psychosocial development
- Personality development as a lifelong process
E. Erikson
- 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
G. Fechner
- Developed psychoanalysis with infants and children
- Discovered Erik Erikson
Anna Freud
-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
Anna Freud
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalytic
-Founder of psychoanalysis, psychosexual stages of development, dream interpretation, free association
Sigmund Freud
-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)
J. Gall
- 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
F. Galton
- Founder of APA in 1892
- 1st APA president
G. Stanley Hall
- Bridge between existential philosophy and existential psychology
- The person and the world are inseparable
- Living authentically - acknowledging the truth about our lives
M. Heidegger
Materialism, unity of mind and body
H. Helmholtz
Came up with certification and doctoral level training for Clinical Psychologists
L. S. Hollingsworth
