Famous Psychologists

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

• John B. Watson

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

• Francis Bacon

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

• Carl Jung

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Sigmund Freud

• Ivan Pavlov

Humanistic psychology - created person-centered therapy

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• Mary Ainsworth

• Carl Rogers

People evolve through 8 socioemotional stages

• Konrad Lorenz

• Erik Erikson

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Carol Gilligan

Studied theory of attachment in infant monkeys (contact comfort matters most!)

• Howard Gardner

• Solomon Asch

• Lev Vygotsky

• Harry Harlow

Forgetting curve - forgetting is rapid initially and levels off

• Rescorla

• Ebbinghuas

• Bandura

• Cannon-Bard

Triarchic theory of intelligence (analytic, practical, creative)

• Spearman

• Sternberg

• Weschler

• Gardner

Study on conformity (line judgment task)

• Philip Zimbardo

• Solomon Asch

• Stanley Milgram

• Leon Festinger

Rational Emotive Therapy - focuses on irrational thinking

• Albert Ellis

• Lewis Terman

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Sigmund Freud

Collective unconscious and archetypes (neoFreudian)

• Carl Jung

• Alfred Adler

• Diana Baumrind

• Jean Piaget