Personality Psych People Flashcards
Adler
Psychodynamic theories best known for concept of inferiority complex
Allport
Trait theorist known for the concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
Bandura
Behavioral theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment (Bobo the doll)
Bem
Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; also linked with concept of androgyny
Cattell
Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Dollard and Miller
Behaviorist theorists who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for work on approach/avoidance conflicts
Erikson
Ego psychologist whose psychosocial stages of development encompass entire life span
Eysenck
Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism
Anna Freud
Founder of ego psychology
Sigmund Freud
Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality
Horney
Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward, moving against, and moving away from
Jung
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
Kelly
Based personality theory on the notion of “individual as scientist”
Kernberg and Klein
Object relations theorist
Lewin
Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory