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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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| developed a rigorous empirical approach to the study of memory and the "forgetting curve" |
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| 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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| American psychologist who studied attachment to caregivers in infant monkey |
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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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| American psychologist who researched differences between males and females in moral development. He also believed that females tend to lean more towards fulfilling human needs and are more relationship oriented than males. |
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| Russian cognitive theorist who emphasized the role of the environment, especially the social world of people, in intellectual development and the "zone of proximal (potential) development" |
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| American trait theorist that 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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| Trait theorist who divided personality into 16 factors: and suggested there were two types of intelligence, fluid and crystallized |
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| individual who established the first American psychology research laboratory (at Johns Hopkins in 1883) established the first professional journal in psychology (the American Journal of Psychology, in 1887) and founded the American Psychological Association (in 1892) |
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