AP Psychology People- Midterm

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Psychoanalytic theory that focuses on the unconscious (id, ego, superego, free association, psychosexual development)

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Sigmund Freud

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Founder of behaviorism and Little Albert study (Behaviorism states that psychology should only study behavior without mental processes!)

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John B. Watson

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Forgetting curve - forgetting is rapid initially and levels off

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Ebbinghuas

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Studied operant conditioning techniques

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B.F. Skinner

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Observational learning with the Bobo doll study

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Albert Bandura

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Won the Nobel Prize for research on split-brain patients (language resides in left hemisphere)

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Michael Gazzaniga

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Railroad accident - demonstrated frontal lobes important for personality, reasoning, etc.

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Phineas Gage

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Studied learned helplessness with dogs and the father of Positive Psychology

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Martin Seligman

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Founded first psychology lab in the United States

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William James

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Known for evolutionary theory

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Charles Darwin