Important Psychology Figures

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Across
  1. 2. Positive psychology; learned helplessness theory
  2. 5. Neo-Freudian who developed Feminist Psychology
  3. 10. Father of Behaviorism (psychology as a study of behavior)
  4. 11. Rational Emotive Behavior Theory (REBT); confrontational approach to treating disorders
  5. 12. Monkey studies (studies of attachment)
  6. 14. Father of cognitive therapy; developed self-report measures of depression and anxiety
  7. 15. Attachment Theory (how closely attached a child is depends on nurturing environment)
  8. 16. Showed the benefits of hypnosis in psychology treatment
  9. 17. Stages of moral development (pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional)
  10. 19. Framing effect (word order matters)
  11. 20. Parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive)
  12. 22. Theorized the presence of general intelligence in different human abilities
  13. 24. Known for research in taste aversion learning (rat experiment)
  14. 25. Agreed with Maslow's assumptions; growth through genuineness, acceptance, and empathy
  15. 26. Father of modern psychology (focus on analyzing consciousness)
  16. 27. Developed the first practical intelligence test
Down
  1. 1. Studied how biological conditionals increased a child's vulnerability to emotions
  2. 3. Conformity experiments (social psychology experiment)
  3. 4. Zone of Proximal Development (what learner can/cannot do with help)
  4. 6. Experiment showed the negative effects of psychiatric diagnoses
  5. 7. Research on obedience (electric shock experiment)
  6. 8. Stages of psychosocial development (trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, etc.)
  7. 9. Discovered the "forgetting curve" and the spacing effect (memory)
  8. 13. All humans share linguistic roots regardless of language
  9. 18. Social Learning Theory (Bobo doll experiment)
  10. 21. Developed analytical psychology (personal quest for wholeness)
  11. 23. Theory of cognitive development (sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational)
  12. 26. Developed "Just-Noticeable Difference" theory