1. Advanced Placement Psychology
Famous Psychologists
Advanced Placement Psychology

2. Willhelm Wundt
Introspection-Psychology & the study of conscious experience
Father of Psychology
University of Leipzig

3. Alfred Adler Neo-Freudian Superiority complex Inferiority complex
Sibling rivalry
Birth order

4. Carl Jung People have conscious & unconscious awareness Archetypes
Collective Unconscious

5. Gordon Allport Cardinal Traits (dominant personality characteristic)
Central Traits
Secondary Traits
PERSONALITY theorist

6. Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy Cognitive Therapist
Focuses on altering a client’s irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions.

7. John Watson Founder of behaviorism Little Albert study
Rosalie Rayner (his graduate student and later his wife)
Conditioning fear

8. Abraham Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
Lower level needs dominate higher level needs
Goal is to be self-actualized

9. Carl Rogers Humanist Personal growth
Empathy, acceptance, understanding

10. B.F. Skinner
Behaviorism
Skinner Box
Operant Conditioning

11. Ivan Pavlov Classical conditioning UCS elicits a UCR Dogs
Salivation to meat powder & tuning fork
UCS, UCR, CS, CR

12. Noam Chomsky Language Cognitive Perspective
Humans have an inborn native ability to develop language.

13. Erik Erikson

14. David Weschler WAIS Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test for Adults
Intelligence test for adults (S-B test is not good in assessing adult intelligence)

15. Jean Piaget Cognitive Development of children Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational

16. Robert Sternberg Tricarchic theory of intelligence
Academic problem solving
Practical intelligence
Creative intelligence

17. Lawrence Kohlberg Preconventional morality Conventional morality
Post-conventional morality

18. Phineas Gage Brain is involved with emotions & behavior & personality
Frontal Lobe

19. Lewis Terman
Revised IQ test for American children and standardized norms for American kids.

20. Howard Gardner Theory of multiple intelligences Practical intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Natural intelligence
Analytical intelligence
Etc….

21. Diana Baumrind
Parenting styles
Permissive
Authoritative
Authoritarian

22. Albert Bandura Bobo Doll Observational Learning
Social-Cognitive Perspective of personality

23. E.L. Thorndike
Law of Effect
Behaviorist

24. Alfred Binet
First IQ test
Intelligence Quotient

25. Charles Spearman g= general ability
Mental talents are highly correlated
Intelligence is NOT multiple….

26. Harry Harlow UW Madison Rhesus monkeys
Attachment is not = to food, comfort and warmth and love is important, too!

27. Herman Rorschach
Projective test
Ink blots

28. 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.

29. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
DABDA – Stages of Death & Dying
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

30. Martin Seligman
Learned Helplessness
Positive Psychology

31. Stanley Milgram
Obedience
Shocks
How far will people go?

32. Elizabeth Loftus Memory False memories of childhood traumas
Repression of threatening childhood memories

33. Mary Whiton Calkins First woman president of the APA.
Denied a Ph.D. from Harvard for being female.

34. Phillip Zimbardo Stanford Prison Study
Power of social roles and behavior
“The Lucifer Effect”

35. 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.