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Very Important Psychologists from AP Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mary Ainsworth | Studied attachment in infants using the "strange situation" model. Label infants "secure", "insecure" (etc.) in attachment |
| Solomon Asch | Conducted famous conformity experiment that required subjects to match lines. |
| Albert Bandura | Famous for the Bobo Doll experiments on observational learning & influence in the Socio-Cognitive Perspective |
| Alfred Binet | Created first intelligence test for Parisian school children |
| Thomas Bouchard | Studied identical twins separated at birth |
| Noam Chomsky | Created concept of "universal grammar" |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus | Memorized nonsense syllables in early study on human memory |
| Erik Erikson | Known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development |
| Sigmund Freud | Developed psychoanalysis; considered to be "father of modern psychiatry" |
| John Garcia | studied taste aversion in rats; led to knowledge that sickness and taste preferences can be conditioned |
| Carol Gilligan | Presented feminist critique of Kolhberg's moral development theory; believed women's moral sense guided by relationships |
| Harry Harlow | Studied attachment in monkeys with artificial mothers |
| William James | created Functionalist school of thought; early American psychology teacher/philosopher |
| Jerome Kagan | Conducted longitudinal studies on temperament (infancy to adolescence) |
| Ancel Keys | Conducted semi-starvation experiments to measure psych effects of hunger |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | Famous for his theory of moral development in children; made use of moral dilemmas in assessment |
| Elizabeth Loftus | Her research on memory construction and the misinformation effect created doubts about the accuracy of eye-witness testimony |
| Abraham Maslow | Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization" |
| Stanley Milgram | Conducted "shocking" (Ha!) experiments on obedience |
| Ivan Pavlov | Described process of classical conditioning after famous experiments with dogs |
| Jean Piaget | Known for his theory of cognitive development in children |
| Carl Rogers | Developed "client-centered" therapy |
| Stanley Schachter | Developed "Two-Factor" theory of emotion; experiments on spillover effect |
| B.F. Skinner | Described process of operant conditioning |
| Edward Thorndike | Famous for "law of effect" and research on cats in "puzzle boxes" |
| John Watson | Early behaviorist; famous for the "Little Albert" experiments on fear conditioning |
| Benjamin Lee Whorf | Famous for describing concept of "liguistic determinism" |
| William Wundt | Conducted first psychology experiments in first psych laboratory |
| Philip Zimbardo | Conducted Stanford Prison experiment |
| Hans Selye | (Accidently) described General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) |
| Karen Horney | Neo-Freudian; offered feminist critique of Freud's theory |
| Martin Seligman | Conducted experiments with dogs that led to the concept of "learned helplessness" |
| Fritz Perls | Creator of Gestalt Therapy |
| Alfred Adler | Neo-Freudian; introduced concept of "inferiority complex" and stressed the importance of birth order |
| Albert Ellis | Developed "rational emotive behavior therapy" (REBT) |
| Aaron Beck | Developed cognitive-behavior therapy |
| Gordon Allport | Founder of Trait Theory |
| Phineas Gage | his survival of a horrible industrial accident taught us about the role of the frontal lobes (okay, he's not really a psychologist...) |
| Walter Mischel | offered famous critique of trait theory and its claims |
| David McClelland | studied achievement motivation; found those with high levels are driven to master challenging tasks |
| Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | wrote "On Death and Dying"; developed 5 stage theory of grief |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | first female president of the APA (1905); a student of William James; denied the PhD she earned from Harvard because of her sex (later, posthumously, it was granted to her) |
| Charles Darwin | his idea, that the genetic composition of a species can be altered through natural selection, has had a lasting impact on psychology through the evolutionary perspective |
| Dorothea Dix | American activist who successfully pressured lawmakers to construct & fund asylums for the mentally ill |
| G. Stanley Hall | first american to work for Wundt; • Founded the American Psychological Association (now largest organization of psychologists in the USA) and became first president |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | First female to be awarded a PhD in psychology; 2nd president of the APA (1921) |
| Paul Broca | the part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscles involved in speech was named for him, because he first identified it |
| Carl Wernicke | an area of the brain (in the left temporal lobe) involved in language comprehension and expression was named for him because he discovered it |
| Michael Gazzaniga | Conducted the "HE-ART" experiments with split brain patients |
| Roger Sperry | like Gazzaniga, studied split brain patients; showed that left/right hemispheres have different functions |
| Gustav Fechner | early German psychologist credited with founding psychophysics |
| David Hubel & Torsten Weisel | two Nobel prize winning neuroscientists who demonstrated the importance of "feature detector" neurons in visual perception |
| Ernst Weber | best known for "Weber's Law", the notion that the JND magnitude is proportional to the stimulus magnitude |
| Ernest Hilgard | famous for his hypnosis research & the theory that a "hidden observer" theory |
| Robert Rescorla | researched classical conditioning; found subjects learn the predictability of an event through trials (cognitive element) |
| Edward Tolman | researched rats' use of "cognitive maps" |
| Wolfgang Kohler | considered to be the founder of Gestalt Psychology |
| George A. Miller | made famous the phrase |
| Alfred Kinsey | his research described human sexual behavior and was controversial (for its methodology & findings) |
| Diana Baumrind | her theory of parenting styles had three main types (permissive, authoratative, & authoritarian) |
| Lev Vygotsky | founder of "Social Development Theory" (note |
| Konrad Lorenz | won Nobel prize for research on imprinting |
| Carl Jung | neo-Freudian who created concept of "collective unconscious" and wrote books on dream interpretation |
| Paul Costa & Robert McCrae | creators of the "Big Five" model of personality traits |
| Francis Galton | interested in link between heredity and intelligence; founder of the eugenics movement |
| Howard Gardner | best known for his theory of "multiple intelligences" |
| Charles Spearman | creator of "g-factor", or general intelligence, concept |
| Robert Sternberg | creator of "successful intelligence" theory (3 types) |
| Louis Terman | advocate of intelligence testing in US; developed Standford-Binet test and oversaw army's use of intelligence testing during WWI |
| David Weschler | developer of WAIS and WISC intelligence tests |
| Mary Cover Jones | "mother of behavior therapy"; used classical conditioning to help "Peter" overcome fear of rabbits |
| Joseph Wolpe | described use of systematic desensitization to treat phobias |
| Leon Festinger | described concept of cognitive dissonance |
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