Famous Psychologists Advanced Placement Psychology Semester II – Kimberly High School Ms. Amy Johnson
Willhelm Wundt Introspection- Psychology & the study of conscious experience Father of Psychology University of Leipzig
Alfred Adler Neo-Freudian Superiority complex Inferiority complex Sibling rivalry Birth order
Carl Jung People have conscious & unconscious awareness Archetypes Collective Unconscious
Gordon Allport Cardinal Traits (dominant personality characteristic) Central Traits Secondary Traits PERSONALITY theorist
Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy Cognitive Therapist Focuses on altering a client’s irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions.
John Watson Founder of behaviorism Little Albert study Rosalie Rayner (his graduate student and later his wife) Conditioning fear
Abraham Maslow Hierarchy of Needs Lower level needs dominate higher level needs Goal is to be self- actualized
Carl Rogers Humanist Personal growth Empathy, acceptance, understanding
B.F. Skinner Behaviorism Skinner Box Operant Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov Classical conditioning UCS elicits a UCR Dogs Salivation to meat powder & tuning fork UCS, UCR, CS, CR
Noam Chomsky Language Cognitive Perspective Humans have an inborn native ability to develop language.
Erik Erikson
David Weschler WAIS Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test for Adults Intelligence test for adults (S-B test is not good in assessing adult intelligence)
Jean Piaget Cognitive Development of children Sensorimotor Preoperational Concrete Operational Formal Operational
Robert Sternberg Tricarchic theory of intelligence –Academic problem solving –Practical intelligence –Creative intelligence
Lawrence Kohlberg Preconventional morality Conventional morality Post-conventional morality
Phineas Gage Brain is involved with emotions & behavior & personality Frontal Lobe
Lewis Terman Revised IQ test for American children and standardized norms for American kids.
Howard Gardner Theory of multiple intelligences –Practical intelligence –Emotional intelligence –Natural intelligence –Analytical intelligence –Etc….
Diana Baumrind Parenting styles –Permissive –Authoritative –Authoritarian
Albert Bandura Bobo Doll Observational Learning Social-Cognitive Perspective of personality
E.L. Thorndike Law of Effect Behaviorist
Alfred Binet First IQ test Intelligence Quotient
Charles Spearman g= general ability Mental talents are highly correlated Intelligence is NOT multiple….
Harry Harlow UW Madison Rhesus monkeys Attachment is not = to food, comfort and warmth and love is important, too!
Herman Rorschach Projective test Ink blots
Carol Gilligan Moral reasoning in girls. Nurturing and caring part of a girl’s DNA – should count in moral reasoning. Dislikes Kohlberg’s Morality Stages.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross DABDA – Stages of Death & Dying –Denial –Anger –Bargaining –Depression –Acceptance
Martin Seligman Learned Helplessness Positive Psychology
Stanley Milgram Obedience Shocks How far will people go?
Elizabeth Loftus Memory False memories of childhood traumas Repression of threatening childhood memories
Mary Whiton Calkins First woman president of the APA. Denied a Ph.D. from Harvard for being female.
Phillip Zimbardo Stanford Prison Study Power of social roles and behavior “The Lucifer Effect”
Karen Horney Neo-Freudian Thought Freud was a little over-sexed. Parental influences very important on childhood. Children fear being abandoned & helplessness – she called this basic anxiety.