The Fabulous 15 Flashcards
What are Albert Bandura’s major contributions to psychology?
Social-learning theory (modeling); reciprocal determinism; self-efficacy
What are Solomon Asch’s major contributions to psychology?
Conformity and impression formation experiments
What are Albert Ellis’s major contributions to psychology?
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
What are Erik Erikson’s major contributions to psychology?
Psychosocial stage theory of development
What are Sigmund Freud’s major contributions to psychology?
Psychosexual stage theory of personality; stressed importance of unconscious and sexual drive; psychoanalysis; theory of dreaming
What are Harry Harlow’s major contributions to psychology?
Attachment studies with infant monkeys
What are Lawrence Kohlberg’s major contributions to psychology?
Stage theory of moral development
What are Abraham Maslow’s major contributions to psychology?
Hierarchy of needs; self-actualization
What are Stanley Milgram’s major contributions to psychology?
Obedience studies
What are Ivan Pavlov’s major contributions to psychology?
Classical conditioning– studies of dogs and salivation
What are Jean Piaget’s major contributions to psychology?
Stage theory of cognitive development
What are Carl Rogers’s major contributions to psychology?
Person-(client-) centered therapy; unconditional positive regard
What are B. F. Skinner’s major contributions to psychology?
Operant conditioning– reinforcement; invented Skinner box
What are John Watson’s major contributions to psychology?
Father of behaviorism; Baby Albert experiment– classically conditioned fear
What are Wilhelm Wundt’s major contributions to society?
Set up first psychological laboratory; theory of structuralism
