Theorists/theories Flashcards
Wundt
(Structuralism) founding field of experimental psychology. The structure of the conscious mind and how emotions lead to cognition and behavior
William James
(Functionalism)- the function of consciousness
Freud
(Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality)- levels of consciousness, structure of personality and stages of child development
Alfred Adler
(Individual Psychology)- personality development, importance of birth order,self image and methods of psychoanalysis
Watson
(Behaviorism) analyzing behavior that emphasizes the observable behavior of individuals Famous for little Albert
Pavlov
(Classical /Respondent conditioning) dogs led to his theories about unconditional and conditioned stimulus and response behaviors later called the classical conditioning
Piaget
(Cognitive Development) stage model of cognitive development
Vygotsky
(Child development) children’s learning processes and the use of language learning
Lewis
(Social Psychology) areas of social psychology, organizational management and applied psychology
Anna Freud
(Ego Defense Mechanisms) worked with children and identified unconscious defense mechanisms used to protect the ego
Maslow
(Hierarchy of needs) view the needs of human beings as hierarchical. Developed the pyramid of human needs that ranges from the most basic to high-order needs
Spitz
(Ego development) ego development of the child and the relationship between mother and child. Know for his identification of hospitalism led to Anaclitic depression
Erickson
(Ego Psychology) build on Freuds theories and expanded the concepts of adult development, identified the psychosocial stages of development from birth to death
Manhler
(The Separation-individuation process) studying infant mother interaction and the process through which the infant individuates from the mother. Proposed a stage based development theory from birth through four years
Skinner
(Operant conditioning) outlined bx therapy. Focus on operant conditioning or the consequences to modify the occur ande and form of bx
Kohlberg
(Moral Development) development of moral reasoning developed the six stage model of moral judgement
Bowlby/Ainsworth
(Attachment Theory) identified the characteristics of a child’s attachment to his/her caregiver and the phases that a child experiences when separated from the caregiver
Kubler-Ross
(Death and dying) stages that individuals go through in the dying process
Bandura
(Social learning theory) concepts of self-efficacy and the Bobo doll experiment)
Gilligan
(Feminist approach to social psychology) studying females to determine gender differences and similarities in development and social functioning
Karl/Wanderi
(Person in environment system) an assessment system that evaluated social environment, mental & physical health problems and client strengths
