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WorksheetsAP Psychology Key Psychologists/Important Figures
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Credited as the father of psychology because he was the first to establish psychology as an experimental science.
John Locke
Wilhem Wundt
Sigmund Freud
Max Weber
believed that the mind is separate from the body. This is referred to as dualism- the mind continues after the body dies.
Soloman Ascho
Socrates/Plato
Max Weber
Sigmund Freud
Known for his theory of natural selection
William James
John Locke
Wilhelm Wundt
Charles Darwin
John lock theorized the mind is like a blank slate he called this
Tabula Rasa
Arbeit Macht Frei
E pluribus unum
Hasta la vista
She said, "men suffer from "womb envy", environment and cultural experience can create anxiety.
Mary Calkins
Dorothea Dix
Margaret Washburn
Anna Freud
Karen Horney
She did the "Stranger situation experiment"
Margaret Washburn
Mary Calkins
Mary Ainsworth
Dorothea Dix
The concept of "Storm and Stress"
Wilhem Wundt
Stanley Hall
Forgetting Curve
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Edward Tolman
Insight learning (chimps solve puzzle to get bananas)
Wolfgang Köhler
Edward Tolman
Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
BF Skinner
Inborn Universal grammar
Noam Chomsky
Benjamin Whorf
Developed the idea of nature vs nurture
Daniel Goleman
Francis Galton
Harry Harlow
Kohlberg's greatest critic
Carol Gilligan
Howard Gardner
Harry Harlow
Karen Horney
Study of obedience to authority figures. Learner and teacher
Stanley Milgram
Philip Zimbardo
Solomon Asch
Cognitive Development, "Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete, Formal
Jean Piaget
Erik Erikson
Lawrence Kohlberg
Paul Costa
Ink blot test
Rorschach
Rosenhan
Seligman
Milgram
He sent fake patients who pretended to have disorders to mental hospitals and they were still treated for months after reporting feeling fine.
Ernst Weber
Phineas Gage
David Rosenhan
Alfred Binet
Cardinal Traits and central traits of personality
Gordon Allport
Raymond Cattell
Paul Ekman
Albert Ellis
Stable vs unstable; introvert vs extrovert
J. Watson
H. Eyesenck
R. Rescorla
C. Spearman
IQ formula; IQ=MA/CA
C. Spearman
A. Binet
R. Sternberg
D. Wechsler
Who measured a child's mental age and was the first to design tests to predict school achievement?
William Stern
Alfred Binet
Lewis Terman
David Wechsler
Created concept of "universal grammar"; pointed out how children "overgeneralize" language rules and the concepts of "deep v. surface" structures in language
Noam Chomsky
Hermann Ebbinghaus
John Garcia
Harry Harlow
Presented feminist critique of Kolhberg's moral development theory; believed women's moral sense guided by relationships
Carol Gilligan
Dorothe Dix
Mary Ainsworth
Elizabeth Loftus
Developed "client-centered" therapy
Carl Rogers
Carl Jung
Abraham Maslow
Stanley Schachter
Developed "Two-Factor" theory of emotion; experiments on spillover effect
Carl Rogers
Stanley Schachter
B.F. Skinner
Edward Thorndike
Early behaviorist; famous for the "Little Albert" experiments on fear conditioning
B.F. Skinner
Edward Thorndike
John Watson
Benjamin Lee Whorf
This psychologist set up an experiment, known as the Stanford Prison experiment, where people played the role of a prison guard. The goal was to observe if this authority position would cause them to act differently.
Solomon Asch
Philip Zimbardo
Stanley Milgram
Leon Festinger
(Accidently) described General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Hans Selye
Karen Horney
Martin Seligman
Fritz Perls
Neo-Freudian; introduced concept of "inferiority complex" and stressed the importance of birth order
Anna Freud
Karen Horney
Alfred Adler
Carl Jung
Developed "rational emotive behavior therapy" (REBT)
Martin Seligman
Fritz Perls
Alfred Adler
Albert Ellis
Developed cognitive-behavior therapy
Aaron Beck
Gordon Allport
Phineas Gage
Walter Mischel
First female to be awarded a PhD in psychology; 2nd president of the APA (1921)
Inez Prosser
Mary Whiton Calkins
Margaret Floy Washburn
Karen Horney
the part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscles involved in speech was named for him, because he first identified it
Paul Broca
Carl Wernicke
Michael Gazzaniga
Roger Sperry
an area of the brain (in the left temporal lobe) involved in language comprehension and expression was named for him because he discovered it
Paul Broca
Carl Wernicke
Michael Gazzaniga
Roger Sperry
best known for "____________'s Law", the notion that the Just Noticeable Difference magnitude is proportional to the stimulus magnitude
Gustav Fechner
David Hubel
Ernst Weber
Ernest Hilgard
Best known for pioneering research with split-brain patients
Freud
Skinner
Watson
Sperry
Continued Sperry's research by advancing understanding of how the two cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another.
Paul Broca
Carl Wernicke
John Watson
Michael Gazzaniga
German experimental psychologist who demonstrated that mental processes can be measured.
Gustav Fechner
Dabid Hubel
Torsten Weisel
Neurophysiologist whose research on feature detectors helped demonstrate the presence of specialized neurons in the occipital lobe's visual cortex that have the ability to respond to specific features of an image.
Gustav Fechner
David Hubel
Torsten Wiesel
Ernest Hilgard
Swedish neuropsychologist who collaborated with Hubel. Their joint work expanded the scientific knowledge of sensory processing and perception.
Gustav Fechner
David Hubel
Torstein Wiesel
Ernest Hilgard
Who believed that we have one general intelligence?
Charles Spearman
L.L. Thurstone
Howard Gardner
Robert Sternberg
Who created the triarchic theory of intelligences?
Charles Spearman
Howard Gardner
L.L. Thurstone
Robert Sternberg
Who coined the phrase "nature vs. nurture" and wrote Hereditary Genius?
Francis Galton
Alfred Binet
Lewis Terman
David Wechsler
Who derived the famous term IQ?
Lewis Terman
William Stern
David Wechsler
Alfred Binet
Who created the most widely used individual intelligence test, WAIS?
David Wechsler
Alfred Binet
Francis Galton
William Stern
Best known for inventing the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.
Gardner
Binet
Terman
Wechsler
Learned Helplessness
Martin Seligman
Hermann Ebbbinghaus
Insight learning (chimps solve puzzle to get bananas)
Wolfgang Köhler
Edward Tolman
Inborn Universal grammar
Noam Chomsky
Benjamin Whorf
Linguistic Determinism
Benjamin Whorf
David Premack
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Gestalt Principles
Law of effect
Stimulus-physiological arousal-emotion
James lange
Cannon Bard
Schacter
developed the 3-stage processing model of memory
John Garcia
Francis Galton
Richard Atkinson
Jean Piaget
Parenting Styles
Baumrind
Binet
Loftus
Milgram
Studied facial expressions(microexpressions) and how they reflected emotions
Albert Ellis
Erik Erikson
Paul Ekman
Lawrence Kohlberg
Raised monkeys with 2 artificial mothers, cloth and wire
John Watson
Elizabeth loftus
Mary Ainsworth
Harry Harlow
Discovery of 16 underlying personality traits
Michael Gazzaniga
Konrad Lorenz
Aaron Beck
Raymond Cattell
Taste Aversion
E. Loftus
J. Garcia
M. Gazzaniga
R. Sperry
False Memory, eyewitness testimony
Mary Ainsworth
Elizabeth Lofus
Carol Gilligan
Mary Carver Jones
Imprinting, study of mallard ducks, critical period
Konrad Lorenz
Abraham Maslow
John Watson
David Wechsler
Father of cognitive therapy.
Aaron Beck
Freud
James
Wundt
