Founder of Individual
Psychology who developed
the idea of “striving for
superiority” and the
“inferiority complex”

He was awarded a
Nobel Prize for work in the
area of digestion,
discovered that animals
could learn to respond to
completely arbitrary
stimuli (bells).

He wrote The Principles of Psychology, but he is most famous for his theory of emotions with
Carl Lange.

He was the founder of
the psychoanalytic
school of psychology
through his development
of the id, ego, and
superego.

He developed an 
eight-stage theory of
psychosocial development beginning with
trust versus mistrust.

This behaviorist is one of the
most influential psychologists
of the late 20th century. He
advocated the idea that
behavior is controlled by
reward and consequences. 

He developed a theory
of moral development
including pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional.

He developed a
form of therapy called
client-centered
therapy, which stresses
humanistic ideas such
as positive personal
growth.

A French surgeon who proposed that the
production of speech is controlled by the left
side of the human brain in an area later named after him.

He was a humanistic
psychologist who
developed a “hierarchy
of needs” that stressed
the importance of
positive growth and self-
actualization.

He is from the school of
psychology known as
behaviorism. Along with Skinner, redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior.

He stressed the importance of observation and imitation in learning. His research included studying children with a Bobo doll.

Developed a four stage
theory of cognitive
(intellectual)
development in children.

The first woman to
hold a Ph.D. in
psychology (conferred
in 1894).

Her theory of 
parenting styles had
three main types: 
permissive, authoritative & 
authoritarian

This person studied attachment in
infants using the stranger
situation model, which labeled infants as secure,
and insecure  in
attachment

He was the leading researcher on hypnosis,
especially with regard
to pain control

He studied absolute threshold and JND
(Just Noticeable
Difference) between two
stimuli

She was an American activist on behalf of the insane who
created the first American mental generation of
asylums.

American psychologist
who studied attachment
to caregivers in infant
monkeys

She charged that
psychoanalytic theory as
developed by Freud was
male-biased and proposed a
more social-cultural
approach to balance the
masculine view of
psychology of the time

In 1879, established
the first psychology
laboratory in Leipzig,
Germany

German neurologist
who discovered the
part of the brain
responsible for the
comprehension of
speech

Swiss psychologist who 
developed the
inkblot test
(projective test)

Who is considered a Humanistic Psychologist?

Of the following, who was a functionalist?

Of the following, who was a structuralist?

Which psychologist studied children’s thought processes (cognitive development)?

Which figure is most associated with developing the theory of classical conditioning? 

Who is the founder of psychoanalysis?

Which philosopher is most well known for theorizing that the mind at birth is tabula rasa or a “blank slate”?

Created the Gestalt approach which emphasized that psychological events cannot be broken down into smaller events

Who was the pioneer in the field of hemisphere lateralization where he demonstrated the phenomenon by researching 'split-brain' patients

Studied the absolute threshold which is the lowest level of stimulation that a person can consciously detect 50% of the time

Stated that dreams stem from conflicts that are buried in the unconscious mind

Stated that dreams are just another kind of thinking that occurs when we sleep

Stated that hypnosis only works on the conscious mind while a "hidden observer" remains aware of what's going on 

Came up with the Law of Effect

Investigated the phenomenon of Latent Learning - or learning without reinforcement

Investigated the phenomenon of Learned Helplessness, current president of the APA

Theorized that most people can store 7+/-2 items in their short-term memory

Researched the impact of False memories on eyewitness testimonies

Came up with the theory of the forgetting curve, which emphasized the use of distributed practice

Emphasized the social surroundings on the intellectual development of children. Strussed the importance of social interactions with more highly skilled children and adults through scaffolding

Came up with the birth order theory of personality. stated that people form personality through their seeking of superiority

Stated that humans have a collective unconscious or shared species memory

Emphasized the use of Unconditional Positive Regard to help children seek out new challenges with minimal anxiety

Emphasized the importance of an internal locus of control 

Stated that people have basic traits which underlie our personality