Influential People in Psychology

I am a Neo-Freudian, Psychodynamic, who developed theories such as the inferiority complex.

• Alfred Adler

• Carl Jung

• Carl Rogers

• Stanley Schachter

I created the General Adaptation Syndrome model for looking at stress, which includes he alarm, resistance, and exhaustion stages.

• Carol Gilligan

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Hans Selye

• Abraham Maslow

I fought for better treatment for mentally ill and disabled people.

• Margaret Floy Washburn

• Gustav Fechner

• Dorothea Dix

• B.F. Skinner

I am a humanist who developed "Unconditional Positive Regard" which states that a therapist must accept their client no matter what.

• Abraham Maslow

• Carl Rogers

• Sigmund Freud

• Mary Weber

I used monkeys and puzzle boxes to study sudden realizations, "ah-ha" moments I called Insight Learning.

• Edward Thorndike

• John Garcia

• Wolfgang Kohler

• Elizabeth Loftus

I developed two intelligence tests called the WISC and the WAIS.

• Harry Harlow

• Charles Spearman

• Alfred Binet

• David Wechsler

My famous Bobo Doll experiment showed the power of observational learning.

• Albert Bandura

• Noam Chomsky

• Hermann Ebbinghaus

• Howard Gardner

I developed a well-known hierarchy to explain how lower needs (like physiological ones) must be met before higher needs (like self-esteem) can be achieved.

• Alfred Adler

• Carl Rogers

• Solomon Asch

• Abraham Maslow

I was a pioneer of psychology and developed theories such as the unconscious, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages.

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Ivan Pavlov

• Sigmund Freud

• Jean Piaget

I opened the first psychological lab and used introspection to do the very first, basic psychology.

• Ivan Pavlov

• William James

• John B. Watson

• Wilhelm Wundt