Psychology Figures

Question 1

Alfred Adler

Answer 1

(1870-1937) American psychoanalyst who focused on birth order and feelings of inferiority and superiority as unconscious drives.

Question 2

Noam Chomsky

Answer 2

(1928-present) American philosopher and linguist. Believes in an innate “deep structure” to language.

Question 3

Sigmund Freud

Answer 3

(1856-1939) Austrian founder of psychoanalytic thought, which presupposes the existence of an unconscious that exists independent of conscious thought.

Question 4

Carl Jung

Answer 4

(1875-1961) Swiss psychoanalyst who departed from Freud’s emphasis on the sexual nature of unconscious thought. Developed theories of personality types and the collective unconscious.

Question 5

B. F. Skinner

Answer 5

(1904-1990) American behaviorist who believed all behavior could be understood in terms of operant conditioning.

Question 6

John Broadus Watson

Answer 6

(1878-1958) American psychologist who first developed behaviorist thought.