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Very Important Psychologists from AP Psychology

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show Studied attachment in infants using the "strange situation" model. Label infants "secure", "insecure" (etc.) in attachment  
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Solomon Asch   show
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show Famous for the Bobo Doll experiments on observational learning & influence in the Socio-Cognitive Perspective  
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Alfred Binet   show
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Thomas Bouchard   show
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show Created concept of "universal grammar"  
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show Memorized nonsense syllables in early study on human memory  
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show Known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development  
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show Developed psychoanalysis; considered to be "father of modern psychiatry"  
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John Garcia   show
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Carol Gilligan   show
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show Studied attachment in monkeys with artificial mothers  
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William James   show
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show Conducted longitudinal studies on temperament (infancy to adolescence)  
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Ancel Keys   show
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show Famous for his theory of moral development in children; made use of moral dilemmas in assessment  
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Elizabeth Loftus   show
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Abraham Maslow   show
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Stanley Milgram   show
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Ivan Pavlov   show
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show Known for his theory of cognitive development in children  
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show Developed "client-centered" therapy  
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show Developed "Two-Factor" theory of emotion; experiments on spillover effect  
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show Described process of operant conditioning  
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show Famous for "law of effect" and research on cats in "puzzle boxes"  
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show Early behaviorist; famous for the "Little Albert" experiments on fear conditioning  
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Benjamin Lee Whorf   show
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William Wundt   show
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Philip Zimbardo   show
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Hans Selye   show
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show Neo-Freudian; offered feminist critique of Freud's theory  
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show Conducted experiments with dogs that led to the concept of "learned helplessness"  
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Fritz Perls   show
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Alfred Adler   show
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show Developed "rational emotive behavior therapy" (REBT)  
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show Developed cognitive-behavior therapy  
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show Founder of Trait Theory  
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Phineas Gage   show
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show offered famous critique of trait theory and its claims  
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show studied achievement motivation; found those with high levels are driven to master challenging tasks  
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show wrote "On Death and Dying"; developed 5 stage theory of grief  
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show 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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show 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   show
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G. Stanley Hall   show
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Margaret Floy Washburn   show
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show 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   show
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show Conducted the "HE-ART" experiments with split brain patients  
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show like Gazzaniga, studied split brain patients; showed that left/right hemispheres have different functions  
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Gustav Fechner   show
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show two Nobel prize winning neuroscientists who demonstrated the importance of "feature detector" neurons in visual perception  
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Ernst Weber   show
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show famous for his hypnosis research & the theory that a "hidden observer" theory  
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show researched classical conditioning; found subjects learn the predictability of an event through trials (cognitive element)  
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show researched rats' use of "cognitive maps"  
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Wolfgang Kohler   show
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George A. Miller   show
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Alfred Kinsey   show
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Diana Baumrind   show
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show founder of "Social Development Theory" (note  
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Konrad Lorenz   show
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show neo-Freudian who created concept of "collective unconscious" and wrote books on dream interpretation  
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Paul Costa & Robert McCrae   show
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Francis Galton   show
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Howard Gardner   show
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Charles Spearman   show
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show creator of "successful intelligence" theory (3 types)  
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Louis Terman   show
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David Weschler   show
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show "mother of behavior therapy"; used classical conditioning to help "Peter" overcome fear of rabbits  
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show described use of systematic desensitization to treat phobias  
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show described concept of cognitive dissonance  
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