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The Name Game
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Mary Ainsworth Developmental psychology; Placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attachment to parents
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Solomon Asch Social psychology; Conformity experiment- people incorrectly reported lengths of lines; Impression formaiton study- professor was warm or cold
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Learning and personality; Social- learning theory (modeling); Reciprocal determinism (triadic reciprocality); Self- efficacy Albert Bandura
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Alfred Binet Testing and individual differences; Developmental psychology, and creator of the first intelligence test
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Noam Chomsky Cognition; Theorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition
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Erik Erikson Developmental psychology; Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages); Neo-Freudian
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Sigmund Freud Personality and states of consciousness; Psychsexual stage theory of personality (oral, anal, phallic, and adult genital); Stressed importance of unconscious and sexual drive; Psychoanalytic therapy; Theory of dreaming
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Carol Gilligan Developmental psychology; Challenged the universality of Kohlberg's moral development theory
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David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel Sensation and perception; Discovered feature detectors, groups of neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different types of visual stimuli
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William James Methods, and history and approaches; Published "The Principles of Psychology," psychology's first textbook; Functionalism
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Harry Harlow Developmental psychology; Experimented with infant monkeys and attachment
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Lawrence Kohlberg Developmental psychology; Stage theory of moral development (preconventional, conventional, and postconventional)
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Elizabeth Loftus Cognition; Demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory
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Abraham Maslow Motivation and emotion, and treatment of Psychological disorders; Humanistic psychologist; Hierarchy of needs, self- actualization
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Stanley Milgram Social psychology; Obedience studies- participants think they are shocking a learner
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Ivan Pavlov Learning; Classical conditioning studies with dogs and salivation
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Jean Piaget Developmental psychology; Stage theory Of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, Concrete operations, and formal operations)
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Robert Rescorla Learning; Developed the contingency model of classical conditioning
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Carl Rogers Treatment of psychological disorders, and personality; Humanistic psychologist- person (client)- centered theraphy and unconditional positive regard; Self theory of personality
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Stanley Schachter Motivation and emotion; Two-factor theory of emotion
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B.F. Skinner Learning; Reinforcement; Operant conditioning; Invented Skinner box
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John Watson Learning; Father of behaviorism; Baby Albert experiment- classically conditioned fear
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Benjamin Whorf Cognition; The linguistic relativity hypothesis
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Wilhelm Wundt History and approaches; Setup the first psychological laboratory in an apartment near the university at Leipzig, Germany; Theory of structuralism
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John Garcia John Garcia had an impact on psychology by defining what we know now by the term 'Conditioned taste aversion.' Conditioned taste aversion can be viewed as a survival mechanism due to the fact that people/animals can decipher whether the food about to be eaten are poisonous or not; which essentially can avoid sickness or death.
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