Influential Psychologists

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Who promoted the idea of a "hierarchy of needs", which basically says people can't fulfill their potential if their basic/lower/biological needs are not being met?

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Abraham Maslow

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Who studied the practice of behavior modification? Behavior is likely to be repeated if encouraged and unlikely to be repeated if punished.

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B. F. Skinner

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Who proposed the theory of the id (unconscious instincts), ego (conscious personality), and superego (moral values)?

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Sigmund Freud

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Who is called the 'Founder of Modern Psychology'? He established the first laboratory for conducting psychological experiments.

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Who used a controversial experiment involving children mimicking aggressive behavior displayed by adults (the Bobo Doll experiment) to demonstrate his social learning theory?

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Albert Bandura

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Who established client-centered therapy based on the belief of self-actualization (people's tendency to work toward fulfilling their potential)?

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Carl Rogers

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Who explained 'classical conditioning' through an experiment showing that dogs could be trained to associate a bell with the feeling of hunger?

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Ivan Pavlov

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Who explained the 'stream of consciousness'? Humans can only experience one mental event at a time, and these events flow from one to the next in a continuous stream.

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William James

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Who used a controversial experiment involving an infant being conditioned to fear a rat (Little Albert) to demonstrate that emotions, including fear, are learned behaviors?

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John B. Watson

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Who described a set of personality archetypes, including the idea of introverts and extroverts?

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Carl Jung