AP Psychology Important Names

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Across
  1. 2. Developmental psychology; experimented with infant monkeys and attachment
  2. 4. Developmental psychologist; psychosocial stage theory (eight stages)
  3. 6. Developmental psychologist; cognitive development stage theory (sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operations, formal operations)
  4. 9. first psychologist to conduct studies on forgetting (rapid loss floowed by gradual decline)
  5. 14. Social psychologist: known for Stanford Prison Study
  6. 15. Proposed the theory of learn helplessness, contributed to positive psychology
  7. 17. proposed the ideal of multiple intelligences (logical, spatial, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, linguistic, naturalistic)
  8. 19. Proposed language acquisition theory that children are born with an inherited ability to learn any human language
  9. 20. Behavioural psychologist implemented Bobo Beatdown experiment
  10. 23. Behavioural psychologist; important to the understanding of classical conditioning (_'s dogs)
  11. 24. Father of psychology; set up first psychology lab in Germany
  12. 25. published the first psychology textbook
  13. 27. Cognitive psychologist: father of cognitive therapy; used to treat depression (challenges negative beliefs)
Down
  1. 1. Contributed to Rational-Emotive-Therapy (RET), focuses on client's irrational thinking
  2. 2. Psychologist who researched hypnosis and hypothesised the dissociation theory of split consciousness (arm in ice water test)
  3. 3. Behavioural psychologist who implemented the little Albert experiment (generalisation)
  4. 5. Behavioural psychologist; studied operant conditioning (_'s box)
  5. 7. Behavioural psychologist learned that rats are more likely to make certain associations than others (sweet water with nausea and noise with shock but not noise with nausea and shock with sweet water)
  6. 8. theorised that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ration of the original stimulus
  7. 10. Proposed parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and rejecting)
  8. 11. Developmental psychologist placed children into "strange situation" in order to evaluate their attachment to their children
  9. 12. Developmental psychologist; stage theory (pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional)
  10. 13. Humanistic; important for treatment of psychological disorders (client-centred therapy)
  11. 16. Social psychologist: obedience studies- participants think they are administering shocks
  12. 18. Humanistic psychologist theorized the hierarchy of needs
  13. 21. criticised Freud, stated that personality is moulded by current fears and impulses, rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts, neurotic trends
  14. 22. Developmental psychologist and creator of the first intelligence test (stanford-_ test)
  15. 26. Experiment on conformity (people answered incorrectly much more of the time when other "confederates" answered incorrectly first)