Personality Psych People

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Adler

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Psychodynamic theories best known for concept of inferiority complex

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Allport

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Trait theorist known for the concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality

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Bandura

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Behavioral theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment (Bobo the doll)

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Bem

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Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; also linked with concept of androgyny

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Cattell

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Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality

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Dollard and Miller

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Behaviorist theorists who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for work on approach/avoidance conflicts

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Erikson

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Ego psychologist whose psychosocial stages of development encompass entire life span

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Eysenck

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Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism

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Anna Freud

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Founder of ego psychology

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Sigmund Freud

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Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality

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Horney

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Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward, moving against, and moving away from

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Jung

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Psychodynamic theorist who broke with Freud over then concept of libido: he suggested that the unconscious could be divided into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, with archetypes being in the collective unconscious

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Kelly

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Based personality theory on the notion of “individual as scientist”

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Kernberg and Klein

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Object relations theorist

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Lewin

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Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory

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Mahler

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Object relations theorist

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Maslow

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Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization

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McClelland

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Studied need for achievement

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Mischel

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Critic of trait theories of personality

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Rogers

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Phenomenological personality theorist

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Sheldon

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Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type

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Skinner

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Behaviorist

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Winnicott

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Object relations theorist

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Witkin

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Studied field dependence and field independence using the rod-and-frame test