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A review of the key figures mentioned in AP Psychology.

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Mary Whiton Calkins   show
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Charles Darwin   show
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Dorthea Dix   show
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Sigmund Freud   show
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G. Stanley Hall   show
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William James   show
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Ivan Pavlov   show
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show created the cognitive development model (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operational)  
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Carl Rogers   show
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Abraham Maslow   show
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B.F. Skinner   show
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Mary Floy Washburn   show
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show founder of behavioralism; classically conditioned Little Albert  
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show identified the area of the brain responsible for language; damage to the area results in expressive aphasia, or the inability to produce language  
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Michael Gazzaniga   show
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show studied how the different hemispheres operate independent of each other  
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show identified the area of the brain responsible for understanding language; damage to the area results in receptive aphasia  
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Gustav Fechner   show
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show along with Weisel, discovered feature detectors  
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show along with Hubel, discovered feature detectors  
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Earnest Hilgard   show
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Albert Bandura   show
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show coined learned taste aversion  
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Robert Rescorla   show
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show created the Law of Effect: behaviors followed by positive consequences are strengthened, those followed by negative consequences are diminished  
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show created cognitive maps, or mental representations of the environment; determined cognitive maps proved latent learning  
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Wolfgang Kohler   show
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Noam Chomsky   show
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Herman Ebbinghaus   show
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Elizabeth Loftus   show
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George Miller   show
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Alfred Kinsey   show
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show along with Singer, created the Schachter-Singer two factor theory of emotion, stating emotion is experienced after a cognitive label is applied to stimuli  
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Hans Seyle   show
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show conducted the strange-situation experiment to determine the types of attachment between a mother and child; secure, anxious-ambivalent, and anxious-avoidant attachments were found to exist  
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show developed the social learning theory, or the social-cognitive perspective; we learn by imitating models (observational learning); believed in reciprocal determinism as a factor of personality; self efficacy  
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Diana Baumrind   show
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show developed the eight stages of psychosocial development, each of which contains a possible conflict  
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Carol Gilligan   show
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Harry Harlow   show
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Konrad Lorenz   show
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show proposed three stages of moral development  
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show proposed four stages of cognitive development  
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Lev Vygotsky   show
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show believed striving for superiority was the main goal of life, not sex; inferiority motivates us to acquire new skills; studied the effects of birth order  
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show proposed the trait theory using the Five-Factor Model: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion  
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Carl Jung   show
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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon   show
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Francis Galton   show
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Howard Gardener   show
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show believed intelligence had two factors, an s factor (specific mental abilities) and a common underlying g factor (general intelligence)  
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Robert Sternberg   show
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Louis Terman   show
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show first to devise a test to measure intelligence in adults; established the use of the bell curve  
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Rosenhan   show
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show emphasized cognitive therapy; the goal is to teach clients new ways of thinking and to change illogical beliefs  
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show developed rational emotive behavioral therapy, which purpose is to change the catastrophizing belief that leads to negative consequences  
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show first to successfully use classical conditioning to recondition a child to overcome a fear  
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show used the counterconditioning technique of systematic desensitization  
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show performed experiments on the effects of conformity  
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Leon Festinger   show
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Elton Mayo   show
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Stanley Milgram   show
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Robert Rosenthal   show
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Philip Zombardo   show
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show conducted the Robbers' Cave Study and determined the best way to unite different groups was by imposing superordinate goals  
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