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| Developmental Pyschologist, placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attachment to parents |
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Social Pyschologist. 1.Conformity Experiment- People incorrectly reported lengths of lines 2. Impression Formation Study- professer was warm or cold |
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| expert in learning and personality. Created the Social learning theory (Modeling), Receiprocal Determinism (triadic reciprocality), and Self-efficacy |
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| Developmental Psychologist, created the first intelligence test |
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| expert in cognition, theorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition |
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Developmental Psychologist, made the psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages). He was a Neo-Freudian |
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| Created the Psychosexual stage theory of personality (oral,anal,phallic, and adult genital). Stressed the importance of unconscious and sexual drive. Started Psychoanalytic theory and theory of dreaming |
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| Published The Principles of Psychology, psychology's first textbook. Started functionalism |
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| Developmental psychologist that challenged the universality of Kohlberg's moral developmental theory. |
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| Developmental psychologist, experimented with infant monkeys and attachment |
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| David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel |
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| Discovered feature detectors, groups of neuorns in visual cortext that respond to different types of visual stimuli |
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| Created the stage theory of moral development (preconvential, convential, and postconventional) |
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| Cognitive psychologist, demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory |
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| Humanistic psychologist, came up with the hierarchy of needs and self-actualization |
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| Social psychologist, did the obediance studies (participants think they are shocking a learner) |
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| Held Classical Conditioning studies where he conditioned a dog to salivate to the sound of the bell |
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| Developmental psychologist, made the stage theory of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations) |
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| Developed the contingency model of classical conditioning |
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| Humanistic psychologist, came up with client-centered therapy and unconditional positive regard. Also made the self theory of personality |
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| Made the Two-factor theory of emotion |
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| Gave us Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, and invented "Skinner's Box" |
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| Father of Behaviorism, conducted the Baby Albert experiment (classically conditioned fear) |
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| Came up with the linguistic relativity hypothesis |
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| Set up the first psychological laboratory in an apartment near the university at Leipzig, Germany and created the theory of structuralism |
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| One of the three founders of Gestalt Psychology and critisized behaviorism |
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| first female psychologist elected to the U.S. National Academy of Science |
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| student of Plato who later disagreed with Socrates and his teacher. He believed knowledge was not preexisting and was based on experiences stored in our memories. He used data instead of logic |
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| agreed with Socrates and after dissecting animals believed that the brain cavity used animal spirits (fluid) and sent it through the nerves to the body's muscles |
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| Thought the mind was blank at birth and written on by experiences |
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| Professor at Cornell University who introduced structuralism and used introspection to teach his students |
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| made James believe that functions were adaptive and we have them because of survival |
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| went to Harvard, but didn't get diploma |
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| made sure he was the first thing ducks saw. This was to prove there were critical periods for learning |
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| one of the first psychologists to describe adolescence, the tension between biological maturity and social dependence created a period of "storm and stress." |
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| One of the three founders of Gestalt Psychology and focused on the phi phenomenon |
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| developed factor analysis and believed in General Intelligence |
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| disagreed with Spearman and did a test on the primary mental abilities. |
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supports Thurstone's idea that intelligence is seperatly packaged. He studied people that soared in one area
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| believes in Gardner's idea of multiple intelligences, but thinks there are only three. Founder of the Triarchic theory of Multiple Intelligence |
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| Stanford professor that tried to use binet's test, but had to adjust from Paris norms to U.S. norms. Made the Stanford-Binet Test. |
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immigrant that took the Stanford Binet and was labeled feeble minded. Later became a great psychologist that created a new intelligence test. |
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| recieved a masters degree from Howard University |
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| critized Freud's theory of female sexual development |
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| came up with the 16 personality factors |
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| psychologist,expert, on emotional intelligence that wrote numerous books |
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| measured how long nonsense syllables stay in our memory with relearning. He is famous for the forgetting curve. |
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| cut out cortexes of rat's brains and discovered that memory is not stored in on part of the brain. |
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| observed changes in sending neurons in Aplysia snail. They learned certain synapses are more efficient in sending signals. |
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