Psychology Famous Names
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Famous names for Rowland Hall AP psychology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Benjamin Whorf | Language theorist; Linguistic Determinism (Language Affects Thinking) |
| Lewis Terman | Studied gifted kids; Revised Simon-Binet to the Stanford-Binet IQ test |
| Mary Ainsworth | Studied secure & insecure attachment in children by placing them in "strange situations" |
| Robert Sternberg | Triarchic Theory of Intelligence: analytical, practical, and creative intelligence |
| Alfred Kinsey | Sex researcher who conducted interviews in the 1930's |
| Francis Galton | Believed head size was related to intelligence |
| Charles Spearman | General Intelligence or "g" underlies IQ. If you are intelligent in one area, you are probably smart in others. |
| Howard Gardner | Multiple Intelligences including "musical", "body-kinesthetic", & naturalistic intelligence |
| David Wechsler | Developed WAIS and WISC (IQ tests) |
| Masters & Johnson | Sex researchers: Described the sexual response cycle |
| Simon LeVay | Discovered that a portion of the hypothalamus was smaller in gay men |
| Alfred Adler | Neo-Freudian; Focused on the "inferiority complex" |
| Martin Seligman | Cognitive behaviorist; studied "learned helplessness" and was a proponent of "positive psychology" |
| D. L. Rosenhan | Wrote article, "On Being Sane in Insane Places" (pretended to be schizophrenic) |
| Hans Eysenck | Trait Theorist; Personality questionnaire based on two personality dimensions |
| Henry Murray | Thematic Apperception Test (TAT); studies achievement motivation |
| Julian Rotter | Cognitive theorist; Studied Locus of Control |
| William Sheldon | Early Trait Theorist; studied body types and personaltiy |
| David McClelland | Motivation research on learned needs (achievement, affiliation, & 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; Fundamental Attribution Error |
| Leon Festinger | Cognitive Dissonance Theory |
| Soloman Asch | Conformity studies; judging the length of lines |
| Irving Janis | Groupthink |
| Hans Selye | Stress and the "General Adaptation Syndrome" |
| Phillip Zimbardo | Social Psychologist; Did the "Stanford 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 & Latane | Studied the "bystander effect" or "diffusion of responsibility" |
| Walter Mischel | Proponent of "the situation" in the "person-situation" debate in personality theory |
| G. Stanley Hall | 1st American psych lab; Wrote the text, "Adolescence" |
| William James | Functionalist; 1st president of APA; Wrote "Principle 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; 1st psychology lab (in Germany) |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus | Memory researcher; Used "nonsense syllables"; Described the learning and forgetting curves |
| Edward L. Thorndike | Behaviorist; 1st studies on animal learning (cats and the puzzle box); Law of Effect |
| A. Simon & T. Binet | 1st intelligence test for children; later revised to become the Stanford-Binet |
| Ivan Pavlov | Russian Physiologist; classical conditioning (salivation in dogs) |
| B. F. Skinner | Behaviorist; father of operant conditioning; principles of reinforcement |
| Carl Rogers | Humanist; client-centered therapy; "Unconditional Positive Regard" |
| Gibson & 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/Extroversion; Collective unconscious & archetypes |
| Edward Titchner | Structuralist; "objective introspection" |
| Fritz Perls | Developed "Gestalt Therapy" |
| Jean Piaget | Stages of Cognitive Development |
| Phineas Gage | Famous for having a metal rod blown through his head |
| Blakemore & Cooper | Studied sensory restriction in kittens |
| Hubel & Weisel | Nobel Prize for "feature detection" in vision |
| Ewald Hering | Opponent-Process Theory of Color Vision |
| Diana Baumrind | Parenting Styles |
| Sperry & Gazziniga | Split-brain experiments |
| Edward Tolman | Cognitive psychologist; Latent Learning & cognitive maps in rats |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision |
| Conrad Lorenz | Studied "imprinting" in birds |
| Chess & Thomas | Temperament studies |
| Harry Harlow | Attachment/body contact studies in baby monkeys |
| Erik Erikson | Neo-Freudian; Psychosocial Stages of Development |
| Elizabeth Loftus | Memory construction; False memory syndrome; eye-witness 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 | Stages of Moral Development in Girls |
| Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | Stage of Death & Dying |
| Ernest Hilgard | Divided consciousness theory of hypnosis; the "hidden observer" |
| George Sperling | Studied sensory (iconic) memory |
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