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John Watson and Rosalie Raynor

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Little Albert case study; classical conditioning; generalization

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Ivan Pavlov

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classical conditioning

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Sigmund Freud

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ID, ego, superego; defense mechanisms

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Howard Gardner

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MI (Multiple Intelligences) theory

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Sternberg: Stanford-Binet

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Developed theory of IQ

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Albert Bandura

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Bobo doll; social learning; imitation; modeling; vicarious learning

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B.F. Skinner

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Pioneered the study of operant conditioning

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Edward L. Thorndike

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First proposed the Law of Effect

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Young-Helmholtz

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Color vision theory; trichromatic

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Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Theory of Linguistic Relativity

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Noam Chomsky

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Language acquisition is biologically based; LAD

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Studies false memories, framing, eye-witness fallibility

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Edward Tolman

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Rat in maze exp. demonstrating cognitive map; latent learning

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John Garcia

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Conditioned taste aversion; bait shyness

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Wolfgang Koehler

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Chimp experiment to demonstrate insight learning

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Breland & Breland

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Instinctual drift; revert back to biologically-based behaviors

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Paul Broca

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Discovered area in left frontal lobe; speech production

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Carl Wernicke

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Discovered area in left temporal lobe; language comprehension

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Jean Piaget

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Schema; four stages of cognitive development

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Albert Ellis

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RET; ABC (Rational Emotive Therapy) (A: Activating Event B: Belief (either rational or irrational) C: Consequence (rational: leading to health consequences | irrational: leading to unhealthy consequences)

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Solomon Asch

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Conformity; “line” experiment

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Martin Seligman

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Learned helplessness

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Stanley Milgram

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Obedience to authority; “shock” experiment

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Lawerence Kohlberg

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Developed ladder of moral development

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Wilhem Wundt

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fathers of modern psychology. He distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology. Ball drop test

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Stanley Hall

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established the first formal US psych lab. interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory. the first president of the APA

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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1st female president of APA. work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. was denied a Ph.D

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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1st female to get a Ph. D in psych. known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development

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Abraham Maslow

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Created/thought of the hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization

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Dorothea Dix

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advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who created the first generation of American mental asylums.

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Gustav Fechner

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studied our awareness of faint stimuli and labeled them absolute thresholds

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Ernst Weber

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discovered the just noticeable difference; his law states that the just noticeable difference will vary depending on its relation to the strength of the original stimulus

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Herman Ebbinghaus

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experimental study of memory, and are known for their discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. they were also the first person to describe the learning curve

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George Miller

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founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. they also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics

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Carol Dweck

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known for her work on motivation and mindset

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Phillip Zimbardo

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Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons

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Leon Festinger

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known for cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory

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elizabeth kubler ross

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she made the 5 stages fo grief outline

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erik erikson

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psychological development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity crisis

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lev vygotsky

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his work on psychological development in children. He published on a diverse range of subjects, and from multiple views as his perspective changed over the years

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diana baumrind

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clinical and developmental psychologist known for her research on parenting styles and for her critique of the use of deception in psychological research

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mary ainsworth

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her work in the development of the attachment theory. She designed the strange situation procedure to observe early emotional attachment between a child and its primary caregiver

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Alfred Adler

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inferiority complex His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, family constellation, and birth order

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Carl Jung

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collective unconscious, archetypes,

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Carl Rogers

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among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology

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Aaron Beck

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father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy

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Mary Cover Jones

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developmental psychologist and a pioneer of behavior therapy

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