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Very Important Psychologists from AP Psychology

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