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AP PSYCH KEY PEOPLE

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Mary Ainsworth   show
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Albert Bandura   show
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show Studied under Freud. Adler broke away from Freud. He believed that social motives, rather than sexual drives, motivated people the most. In Adler’s view, strivings for superiority drive people’s behavior.  
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Solomon Asch   show
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Aaron Beck   show
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show A developer of the Binet-Simon scale Binet intended the test to predict school performance  
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show Developed the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, which holds that physical and emotional stimuli happen simultaneously, with no causal relationship  
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Noam Chomsky   show
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Hermann Ebbinghaus   show
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show An American psychologist who developed a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy known as rational-emotive therapy His rational-emotive therapy is based on the idea that self-defeating thoughts cause psychological problems  
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Sigmund Freud   show
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show Erikson is best-known for his 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development and the concept of the identity crisis. his psychosocial theory looked at how social influences contribute to personality throughout the entire lifespan.  
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show He conducted a series of studies on Conditioned Taste Aversion In these studies, he manipulated the kinds of stimuli preceding the onset of nausea and other noxious experiments in rats, using radiation to artificially induce the nausea  
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show A developmental psychologist whose research focuses on creativity in adults and children Gardner proposed a theory of multiple intelligences, which has been highly influential among educators  
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show Professor Harlow’s research developed an abundant supply of primate learning tests Harlow’s famous wire/cloth “mother” monkey studies demonstrated that the need for affection created a stronger bond between mother and infant than did physical needs  
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show She was a pioneering theorist in personality, psychoanalysis, and “feminine psychology.” Anxiety is created by anything that jeopardizes a person’s means of gaining security The neurotic’s rigid adherence to his safety devices protects him in some ways  
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show An American philosopher and psychologist James believed that the experience of emotion arises from bodily expression According to his view, people are said BECAUSE they cry Contributed to development of the James-Lange theory of emotion  
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show Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who was a friend and follower of Freud Jung broke away from Freud in the 1910s because of a bitter theoretical disagreement Collective unconscious- contains universal human memories  
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show A major figure in moral psychology and moral education Kohlberg had a passionate commitment to building a just society Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development  
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Abraham Maslow   show
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show Conductor of a famous, controversial research study of obedience to authority. Found that his experiment subjects were willing to cause serious harm and suffering to others if instructed to do so by an authority figure. Milgram had to deceive his subjects  
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Ivan Pavlov   show
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show Developmental psychologists Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development His contributions include a theory of cognitive child development, detailed observational studies of cognition in children, and a series of tests to reveal cognitive abilities  
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show An American psychologist who proposed the person-centered or client-centered theory of psychology. Rogers asserted that people’s self-concepts determine their behavior and relationships with others. Client-Therapist Relationship  
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show She identified 5 stages of psychological adjustment Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance  
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Stanley Schachter   show
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show Pioneer in the field of “positive psychology,” the study of what makes people happy and good. Contrasts traditional clinical psychology, which focuses on what makes people distressed Discovered the phenomenon of learned helplessness in dogs  
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Hans Selye   show
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B.F. Skinner   show
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Charles Spearman   show
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Robert Sternberg   show
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Lewis Terman   show
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show Studied learning and classical conditioning, primarily in animals Formulated the Law of Effect- any behavior that is followed by a pleasant consequence is likely to be repeated, while any behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to stop.  
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John Watson   show
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David Wechsler   show
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Wilhelm Wundt   show
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