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Psychology
12th Grade
10/03/2011

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Lewis Terman
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made major revisions of Binet's intelligence test to create The Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale
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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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emotion theorist that guessted emotional sensory first reashes the thalamus, then simultaneously are felt and cause a bodily reaction with Bard
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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
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Howard Gardner
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divided intelligence into 8 different types: logical-mathematical, linguistic, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.
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martin Seligman
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American psychologist that proposed learned helplessness can cause depression or other mental illnesses; current advocate of positive psychology
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wilhelm wundt
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in 1879, first psychology laboratory was established in Leipzig, Germany
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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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English philosopher that argued every person begins life as "tabula rase" ("blank slate") and all knowledge is the result of experience, a view that became known as empiricism
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