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