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Developmental Psychology Important Names
Important names to know for the Psychology GRE
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Psychology
Graduate
11/04/2010

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Mary Ainsworth
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Devised the “strange situation” to study attachment

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Baumrind
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Studies the relationship between parental style and aggression

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Bowlby, J.
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Studies attachment in human children

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Noam Chomsky
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Linguist who suggested that children have an innate capacity for language acquisition

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Eric Erikson
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Outlined 8 stages of psychosexual development covering the entire lifespan

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Sigmund Freud
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Ou  .  Stressed importance of the Oedipal conflict in psychosexual development.
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A. Gesell
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Believde that development was due primarily to maturation.
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C. Gilligan
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Suggested that males and femailes have different orientations toward morality

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G. Hall
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Founder of DP

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H. Harlow
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Used monkeys and surrogate mothers to study the role of contact comfort in bond formation

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L. Kohlberg
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Studied moral development using moral dilemmas.

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J. Locke
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Brittish philosopher. Suggested that infants had no predetermined tendencies.  They were tabula rasa

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K. Lorenz
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Studied imprinting in birds

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J. Piaget
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Outlined 4 stages of cognitive development. 
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J. Rousseau
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French philosopher.  Suggested that development could unfold without help from society

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L. Terman
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Performed longitudinal study on gifted children

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R. Tyron
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Stuids the genetic basis of maze-running ability in rats
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L. Vygotsky
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Studied cognitive development. Stressed the importance of the zone of proximal development.
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