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and their contributions to Psych

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Charles Darwin

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Theory of evolution, survival of the fittest-origin of the species

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Gordon Allport

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Three levels of traits: 1. Cardinal trait-it is the dominant trait that characterizes your life
2.Central trait-one common to all people
3. Secondary trait- it surfaces in some situations and not in others

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Hans Eysenck

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PEN Model- Superfactors>factors>habits>behaviours

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William Sheldon

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Linked personality to physique
Endomorphic (large), mesomorphic (average), ectomorphic (skinny)

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Erik Erikson

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8 stages of life; psychological crisis in life “who am I”

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Jean Piaget

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4 stages of cognitive development

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Urie Bronfenbrenner

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Bioecological model-
Development in set of systems: cultural, social, economic, political
Micro>Meso>Exo>Macro>Chrono

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Lev Vygostsky

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Sociocultural Model
ZPD
Scaffolding
MKO

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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6 stages of moral development in children
under
3 levels of moral reasoning

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John Watson

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Founder of behaviourism
He conditioned fear of white rats and other furry objects in “Little Albert,” an orphaned 11-month-old boy.

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Ivan Pavlov

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Classical Conditioning

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Clark Hull

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Behviourist; drive reduction theory

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BF Skinner

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Behaviourism
Operant Conditioning (reward-punishment); Skinner Box (rat, electric rods, food, signal)

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Albert Bandura

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Observational Learning
Bobo doll
Modelling

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Edward L. Thorndike

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Primary area: Animal Intelligence
Theory of Connectionism
Law of Effect (behaviour-response)
Trace Decay Theory

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George Armitage Miller

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Short term memory contains seven, plus or minus two individual items (5 to 9 items)

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17
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Attkinson & Shiffrin

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Model of working of human memory
Sensory
STM
LTM

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalytic
Id, Ego, Super ego
Defense Mechanisms
Psychosexual stages of development

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Alfred Adler

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Psychoanalytic (neo Freudian)
Childhood social tension crucial for personality growth (Inferiority, compensation)

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Karen Horney

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Psychoanalytic (critical of Freud)
Current fears and impulses molds personality (neurotic needs, trends, 10 irrational solutions)

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Albert Maslow

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Humanistic
Hierarchy, 5 innate needs

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Carl Rogers

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Humanistic
Concept of Self
Unconditional Positive Regard
Positive self regard
Incongruence

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Paul Broca

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Broca’s Area: language center of brain; production of speech and language

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Wernicke

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Wernicke’s Area: Comprehension of language

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Kubler-Ross

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Stages of Grief
Denial>Anger/resentment>Bargaining (w God)> Depression>Acceptance

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Wilhelm Wundt

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one of the fathers of psychology
First psychology lab, 1879 Leipzig

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Francis Galton

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Founder of Differential Psychology (psychological differences, genetic inheritance, between people rather than common traits)
Formulation of the first mental tests

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Carl Jung

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analytical psychology
individuation and the self, the shadow, personal and collective unconscious, complexes and archetypes

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Albert Ellis

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Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (type of CBT)
Altering client’s patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behaviour and emotions

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William James, Carl Lange

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James-Lange Theory of emotion

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Alfred Binet

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First IQ Test (Binet-Simon); to indentify slow learners

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Lewis Terman

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Revised Binet’s IQ test- “Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test” for American children

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Robert Sternberg

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Triarchic Theory of Intelligence- analytical, creative, practical
Theory of Love- commitment, passion, intimacy (fatuous, romantic, companionate)

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Howard Gardner

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Theory of Multiple Intelligence (8- mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, verbal)

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Charles Spearman

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Two-Factor theory of intelligence
‘g’ factor- general ability/intelligence
‘s’ factor- specific abilities

36
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Simon Asch

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Study on conformity.
Experiment- subject unaware of his situation to see if he would conform if all members of the group gave incorrect answers

37
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Ernst Weber

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Weber’s Law
the bigger or more intense the standard stimulus, the larger the increment needed to get a noticeable difference

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Gustav Fechner

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Fechner’s Law
magnitude of a sensory experience is proportional to the number of JND’s
that the stimulus causing the experiences above absolute threshold.

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H. Rorschach

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(one of the) First projective test- Inkblot test

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Henry Murray

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“Need to achieve varied in strength in different people and influenced their tendency to approach success and evaluate their own performances”
Devised TAT with Christiana D. Morgan

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David McClelland

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Human Motivation Theory - Need for Power, Achievement, Affiliation
Developed scoring system for TAT’s use in assessing achievement motivation (not for TAT itself)

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