Psychologists to Remember

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  1. 2. Showed that in classical conditioning, pairing two stimuli doesn't always produce the same level of conditioning. Conditioning works better if the conditioned stimulus acts as a reliable signal that predicts the appearance of the unconditioned stimulus.
  2. 4. best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion
  3. 7. Known for his moral development theory including Pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional
  4. 9. best known for being an educational psychologist with a sociocultural theory. This theory suggests that social interaction leads to continuous step-by-step changes in children's thought and behavior that can vary greatly from culture to culture
  5. 11. known as the father of client-centered (humanistic) therapy
  6. 12. Social-Cognitive Psychologist known for his Bobo Doll study on observational learning
  7. 14. developed the theories of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory
  8. 16. developed the first Intelligence Test in collaboration with Theodore Simon. The test was developed in order to identify children with learning disabilities so that they might be placed in a special class. The scale was composed of thirty tasks, including items on memory, vocabulary, verbal ability, and reasoning
  9. 18. American developmental psychologist who developed the theory of multiple intelligences. He proposed that people have different ways of processing stimuli and information and theorized that these different types of intelligence mostly work independently of each other
  10. 19. was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology along with Max Wertheimer and KurtKoffka, He is also famous for his description of insight learning which he tested on animals, particularly chimpanzees
  11. 24. pioneered the experimental study of memory and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve
  12. 26. Behaviorist studied latent learning in rats through maze learning (learning which is not apparent in the learner's behavior at the time of learning, but which manifests later when a suitable motivation and circumstances appear)
  13. 31. celebrated for his discovery of the speech production center of the brain located in the frontal lobes
  14. 32. is known for leading the Stanford Prison Study, a controversial experiment which investigated the psychological effects of being a prisoner or prison guard. In the experiment, college students were randomly assigned to become prisoners or guards
  15. 35. recognized for writing the Principles of Psychology, founder of Functionalism, and created emotion theory with colleague Carl Lang
  16. 36. Nineteenth-century reformer who protested the practice of confining the mentally ill in prisons and whose labors led to the expansion and improvement of mental hospitals
  17. 37. recognized for the theory of evolution
  18. 38. opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany to study introspection and founded Structuralism
  19. 39. American psychologist known for her research in gender issues, ethical decision making, and hierarchies
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  1. 1. Best known for Triarchic Theory of Intelligence which stated there are three types of intelligence: Analytical, Practical, and Creative
  2. 3. first person to identify stress as a medical issue and its effects on people. Known as the "father of stress research"
  3. 5. developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst, best known for formulating the Psychosocial Stages of Development which outlined personality development from birth to old age
  4. 6. most known for his research regarding human sexual behavior. ... His books "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948) and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953) were groundbreaking in the field of human sexuality and human behavior in general
  5. 8. best known for his maternal-separation dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development
  6. 10. Known for the "Little Albert" experiment where he classically conditioned a baby to be afraid of rats
  7. 13. Behaviorist known for the theory of operant conditioning
  8. 15. Social Psychologist who is most well-known for conducting a series of controversial experiments on Obedience to Authority Figures
  9. 17. Cognitive psychologist known for his developmental theory including Servomotor; Pre-operational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational Stage
  10. 20. best known for hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
  11. 21. Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior
  12. 22. pioneered the fields of eugenics and psychometrics and was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence
  13. 23. Developed his two-factor theory of intelligence using factor analysis. His research not only led him to develop the concept of the g factor of general intelligence, but also the s factor of specific intellectual abilities
  14. 25. famous in the 1950s for his research on hypnosis, especially with regard to pain control and the "hidden observer"
  15. 27. Known for discovery of the area of the brain involved in understanding language located in the temporal lobe
  16. 28. American linguist who contributed greatly to Cognitive psychology through language research. Believed children were pre-wired to learn language
  17. 29. He developed well-known intelligence scales, such as the scale for adults (WAIS) and the scale for children (WISC)
  18. 30. developmental psychologist who became known for her work concerning early emotional attachment of babies to their primary caregivers in the "Strange Situation"
  19. 33. founder of the APA. and theory of Storm and Stress
  20. 34. His primary areas of research included impression formation, prestige and conformity and the nature of group pressure