Famous Names Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ivan Pavlov | russian psychologist, classical conditioning, salivation in dogs |
| B.F. Skinner | behaviorist, operant conditioning, principles of reinforcement |
| Carl Rogers | humanist, client-centered therapy, unconditional positive regard |
| Gibson and Walk | studied depth perception using the visual cliff |
| Abraham Maslow | humanist, hierarchy of needs, self actualization |
| John B. Watson | behaviorist, classical conditioning, little albert study |
| Carl Jung | neo-freudian, introversion/extraversion, collective unconscious and archetypes |
| Edward Titchner | structuralist, objective introspection |
| Fritz Perls | developed gestalt therapy |
| Jean Piaget | stages of cognitive development, cognitive psychologist |
| Phineas Gage | famous for having a metal rod blown through his head |
| Blakemore and Cooper | sensory restriction in kittens |
| Hubel and Weisel | nobel price for "feature detection" in vision |
| Ewald Hering | opponent-process, theory of color vision |
| Diana Baumrind | parenting styles |
| Sperry and Gazziniga | split-brain experiments |
| Edward Tolman | cognitive psychologist, latent learning |
| Herman von Helmholtz | trichromatic, theory of color vision |
| Conrad Lorenz | studied "imprinting" in birds |
| Chess and Thomas | temperament studies |
| Harry Harlow | attachment/body contact studies in baby monkeys |
| Erik Erikson | psychosocial stages of development, neo-Freudian |
| Elizabeth Loftus | memory construction false memory syndrome, eyewitness identification |
| Noam Chomsky | language theorist universal grammar theory (born to learn grammar) |
| Albert Bandura | observational learning ("modeling"), reciprocal determinism |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | stages of moral development |
| Carol Gilligan | moral development in girls |
| Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | stages of death and dying |
| Ernest Hilgard | divided consciousness theory of hypnosis, the "hidden observer" |
| George Sperling | studied sensory (iconic) memory |
| Benjamin Whorf | language theorist, linguistic determinism (language affects thinking) |
| Lewis Terman | studied gifted children, revised simeon-binet IQ test to become the standford-binet |
| Mary Ainsworth | studied secure and insecure attachment by placing young kids in "strange situations" |
| Robert Sternberg | triarchic theory of intelligence, (includes analytical, practical and creative intelligence) |
| Alfred Kinsey | sex researcher who conducted interviews in the 1930's |
| Francis Galton | head size and intelligence |
| Charles Spearman | promoted the idea of a general intelligence or "g" factor underlying IQ |
| Howard Gardner | promoted the idea of 8 multiple intelligences including "musical" "body-kinesthetic" and "naturalistic" |
| David Wechsler | developed WISC and WAIS IQ tests |
| Masters and Johnson | sex researchers, described the sexual response cycle |
| Simon LeVay | discovered that a part of the hypothalamus was smaller in gay men |
| Alfred Adler | neo-freudian, focused on the "inferiority complex" |
| Martin Seligman | social-cognitive theorist, "learned helplessness," "positive psychology" |
| D.L. Rosenhan | "on being sane in insane places" (pretending to be schizophrenic) |
| Hans Eysenck | trait theorist, personality questionnaire based on 2 personality dimensions |
| Henry Murray | thematic apperception test (TAT), studied achievement motivation |
| Julian Rotter | cognitive theorist, studied "locus of control" |
| William Sheldon | trait theorist who studies body types |
| David McClelland | motivation research on learned needs (achievement, affiliation and power) |
| Albert Ellis | cognitive perspective, developed RET (rational emotive therapy) |
| Aaron Beck | cognitive-behaviorist, developed cognitive therapy for depression (irrational thinking impacts emotions) |
| Fritz Heider | attribution theory, and the "fundamental attribution error" |
| Leon Festinger | cognitive dissonance theory |
| Soloman Asch | conformity studies (judging the lengths of lines) |
| Irving Janis | groupthink |
| Hans Selye | general adaptation syndrome and stress |
| Phillip Zimbardo | social psychologist, did the "prison study" on role-playing |
| Muzafer Sherif | suggestibility studies (conformity) involving the apparent movement of lights, studies "cooperation" with kids at camp |
| Stanley Milgram | obedience studies using "shock" |
| Elaine Hatfield | studied attraction and love |
| Darley and Latane | studied the "bystander effect", or "diffusion of responsibility" |
| Walter Mischel | proponent of "the situation" in the "person-situation" debate of personality theory |
| G. Stanley Hall | first american psych lab, wrote the text called "adolescence" |
| William James | functionalist, first president of APA, wrote "principles of psychology" in 1890 |
| Sigmund Freud | father of psychoanalysis, wrote "the interpretation of dreams" in 1890 |
| Wolfgang Kohler | demonstrated "insight" in chimps when Sultan used tools to solve a problem |
| Wilhelm Wundt | structuralist, first psychology laboratory |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus | memory researcher, used "nonsense syllables", learning and forgetting curves |
| Edward L. Thorndike | behaviorist, first studies on animal learning (cats and puzzle box), "law of effect" |
| A. Simon and T. Binet | first intelligence test for children, later revised to become the "Stanford-Binet" |
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