Psychology Figures

Question 1

Noam Chomasky

Answer 1

1928 -

An American psycholinguist who believes in “deep structure” to language.

Question 2

Sigmund Freud

Answer 2

1856 - 1939

An Austrian founder of psychoanalytic thought - this says that there is an unconscious that exists independent of the conscious.

Question 3

Carl Jung

Answer 3

1875 - 1961

A Swiss psychoanalyst of the Freud school that focused on personality types and the collective unconscious. Broke with Freud on sexual natures.

Question 4

B.F. Skinner

Answer 4

1904 - 1990

An American behaviorist who believed all behavior could be understood in terms of operant conditioning.

Question 5

John Broadus Watson

Answer 5

1878 - 1958

An American psychologist that first studied behaviorist thought.

Question 6

Alfred Adler

Answer 6

1870 - 1937

An American psychoanalyst who focused on birth order and feelings of inferiority/superiority as unconscious drives.