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Psychology
12th Grade
12/11/2012

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Alfred Adler
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psychoanalytical (personality); main source of motivation is striving to be superior
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Mary Ainsworth
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put infants in a strange situation to examine attachment to parents
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Nancy Andreasen
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proposed classifying schizophrenia into two subtypes (positive and negative symptoms)
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Solomon Asch
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experiments on conformity
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Albert Bandura
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observational learning, modeling, reciprocal determinism
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Noam Chomsky
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critical period hypothesis for language acquisition
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Erik Erikson
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proposed eight types of psychological development
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Hans Eysenck
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emphasized the role of genetics and role/personality development
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Leon Festinger
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proposed the theory of cognitive dissonance
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Sigmund Freud
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psychodynamics; sexual development
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Howard Gardner
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intelligence; eight distinct types of intelligence
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Elain Hatfield and Ellen Bersheid
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proposed two types of love (passionate and compassionate)
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Cindy Hazen and Phillip Shaver
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suggested that adults' love followed the same pattern as infant development
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William James
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wrote first psychology textbook (Principles of Psychology); functionalism
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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stages of morality (3 stages)
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Elizabeth Loftus
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research in eyewitness testimony and constructive memory
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Abraham Maslow
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hierarchy of needs
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Stanley Milgram
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study of obedience to authority
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Ivan Pavlov
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classical conditioning (dogs salivating)
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Richard Petty
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proposed elboration model of attitude change; persuasion (central-peripheral)
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Jean Piaget
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4 stages of cognitive development
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Carl Rogers
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humanistic; self theory of personality; client-centered therapy; unconditional positive regard
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Stanley Schachter
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proposed two-factor theory
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Martin Seligman
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learned helplessness; founded positive psychology
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B.F. Skinner
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operant conditioning (studies on rats)
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Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga
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classical research on split brain patients
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Edward Tolman
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proposed concept of latent learning
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Lev Vygotsky
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cognitive development; cognitive skills occur through interaction
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John Watson
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founded behavioralism; classical conditioning on Little Albert
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Wilhem Wundt
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established first psychology lab (structuralism); father of psychology
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Philip Zimbardo
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Stanford prison experiments
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