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Know Your Psychologists
50 Psychologists to know for the AP Exam
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04/23/2013

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Alfred Binet
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In 1905, ______ with Theodore Simon devised the first modern intelligence test.
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Margaret Washburn
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The first woman to hold a Ph.D. in psychoogy (conferred in 1894)
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Jean Piaget
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_______ developed a four-stage theory of cognitive development in children
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Rene Descartes
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The doctrine known as dualism, which holds that reality is composed of two entries, mind and matter with the mind being entirely distinct from the body, was advocated by the French philosopher-mathematician ______
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Albert Bandura
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_______ stressed the importance of observation and imitation in learning and proposed a more social-learning approach
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John Watson
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The school of psychology known as behaviorism was founded with the publication of an influential article, "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It," written by ________
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Abraham Maslow
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The humanistic psychologist who developed a "hierarchy of needs" that stressed the importance of positive growth and self-actualization was ______
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Hans Selye
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Developed the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) which is a three-phase process for dealing with stress
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Paul Broca
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The French surgeon, ____, proposed that the production of speech is controlled by the left side of the human brain
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Carl Rogers
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____ developed a form of therapy called client-centered therapy, which stresses humanistic ideals such as positive personal growth
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Edward Thorndike
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___ was the American psychologist who discovered the "law of effect" through his experiments with cats in a "puzzle box."
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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____ developed a theory of moral development with three separate stages of conventional morality or reasoning
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Charles Darwin
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The naturalist whose research and writings on the origin of species had a direct influence on the early school of psychology known as functionalism was ______
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Stanley Milgram
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Conducted controversial research on social obedience in the mid-1960's
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B.F. Skinner
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One of the most influential psychologists of the late 20th century advocated the idea that behavior is controlled by its consequences
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Erik Erikson
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____ developed an eight-stage theory of psychological development beginning with trust vs. mistrust
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Sigmund Freud
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_____ was the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology through his development of the id, ego and superego
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Robert 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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"The Principles of Psychology," written by ______ had a profound influence on the early development of psychology, along with his theory of emotions with Carl Lange
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Ivan Pavlov
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_____, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for work in the area of digestion, discovered that animals could learn to respond to completely arbitrary stimuli, also known as classical conditioning
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Alfred Adler
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The 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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______ was a social psychologist who studied conformity and how group pressure affects distortion of judgement with his line test
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Hans Eysenck
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___ proposed that personality was made up of two dimensions: introversion vs extroversion and emotionality (psychoficism) vs stability (neuroticism)
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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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One of the first to use hypnosis to help patients was _____
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Noam Chomsky
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Linguist who suggested humans have an inborn or "native" propensity to learn to talk was ____
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Paul Ekman
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_____ studied people's facial expressions and found cross-cultural agreement on the interpretation of facial expressions
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Herman Rorschach
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A Swiss psychologist, ______ developed the inkblot test
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David Weschler
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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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______ and William James developed an intelligence scale (test) which stressed both verbal and nonverbal intelligence
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Lewis Terman
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American psychologist who made major revisions of Binet's intelligence test to create the Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale was ______
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Walter Mischel
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_____ developed cognitive theory of personality emphasizing that people actively participate in the cognitive organization of their interactions with the environment and behavior is characterized more by situational specificity rather than consistency.
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Walter Cannon
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An emotion theorist, _____ along with Bard, suggested emotional sensory information first reaches the thalamus, then simultaneously are felt and cause a bodily reaction
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Robert Sternberg
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______ proposed a triarchic theory of intelligence and a triarchic theory of love
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Karl Wernicke
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German neurologist who discovered the part of the brain responsible for the comprehension of speech was ______
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Howard Gardner
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_____ divided intelligence into 8 different types; logical-mathematical, linguistic, musical, spacial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist
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Martin Seligman
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The American psychologist, _____, proposed learned helplessness can cause depression or other mental illnesses; an advocate for positive psychology
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Wilhelm Wundt
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In 1879, the first psychology lab was established in Germany by ____
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Anna Freud
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______ continued her father's work in psychoanalysis with an emphasis on children
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John Locke
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The English philosopher, ______, argued every person begins life as "tabula rasa" (blank slate) and all knowledge is the result of experience, a view that is known as empiricism
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Karen Horney
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_____ charged that psychoanalytic theory as developed by Freud was male-biased and proposed a more social-cultural approach to balance the masculine view of psychology of the time
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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________ devleoped a rigorous empirical approach to the study of memory and the "forgetting curve"
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Sir Francis
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______, a cousin of Darwin, was an English scientist who coined the term "nature vs nurture" and a firm believer in the eugenic theory
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Harry Harlow
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American psychologist who studied attachment to caregivers in infant monkeys was _____
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Adelbert Ames
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____ developed a distortion room that is named after him where people of similar sizes appear to be at different heights
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Carol Gilligan
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An American psychologist who researched differences between males and females in moral development, ______ believed that females tend to lean more towards fulfilling human needs and are more relationship oriented than males
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Lev Vygotsky
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______, a Russian cognitive theorist who emphasized the role of the environment, especially the social world of people, in intellectual development and the "zone of proximal development"
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Gordon Allport
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An American trait theorist, _______ believed personality can be described in terms of fundamental traits that he divided into three kinds of traits: cardinal, central, and secondary traits
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Raymond Cattell
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The trait theorist who divided personality into 16 factors and suggested there were two types of intelligence, fluid and crystallized, was _______
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G. Stanley Hall
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The individual who founded the American Psychological Association in 1892
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