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Erik Erikson
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developed eight stage theory of psychosocial development beginning with trust verse mistrust
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Sigmund Freud
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founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology through his development of the id, ego, and superego
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Roger Sperry
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received a Nobel prize for his research on split-brain patients who had their corpus callosums cut
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William James
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wrote the principles of Psychology which had a profound influence on the early development of psychology, along wit his theory of emotions with Carl Lange
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Ivan Pavlov
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awarded a Nobel Prize for work in the area of digestion, discovered that animals cold learn to respond to completely arbitrary stimuli. This type of learning was later called classical conditioning
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Alfred Adler
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founder of Individual Psychology who developed the idea of "striving for superiority" and the "inferiority complex"
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Solomon Asch
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social psychologist who studied conformity and how group pressure affects distortion of judgement by asking subjects to compare the lengths of different lines
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Carl Jung
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developed the concept of the collective unconscious, and founded the Analytical School of Psychology
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Franz Mesmer
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first to use hypnosis to help patients. Magnetize patients to harness their animal magnetism to cure their problems
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Noam Chomsky
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Linguist who suggested humans have an inborn or native propensity to learn to talk
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Paul Ekman
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studied people's facial expressions and found crosscultural agreement on the interpretation of facial expressions
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Hermann Rorschach
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Swiss psychologist that developed the inkblot test
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David Wechsler
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Developed an intelligence scale (test) which stressed both verbal and nonverbal intelligence
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Carl Lange
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Developed a theory of emotions whereby emotions are the result of bodily reactions rather than the reverse with William James
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Lewis Terman
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American psychologist who made major revisions on Binet's intelligence test to create The Sandford-Binet Intelligence Scale
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Walter Mischel
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developed cognitive theory of personality emphasizing the people actively participate int he cognitive organization of the interactions with the environment and behavior is characterize
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Hans Eysenck
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proposed that personality was made up of two dimensions: introversion vs extroversion and emotionality (psychoticism) vs stability (neuroticism)
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