AP Psychology: Famous Psychologists

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Across
  1. 4. - best known forpioneering the use of cognitive behavior therapy
  2. 7. – Bobo doll experiment and social learning from observation
  3. 8. – maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys
  4. 9. – explored operant conditioning through his Little Albert experiment
  5. 11. – early emotional attachment with the Strange Situation
  6. 14. – developed Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
  7. 18. – famous for research establishing that nonverbal communications of emotions is universal through study of facial expressions
  8. 19. – best known for his theory of multiple intelligences
  9. 21. – known for his experiment that challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
  10. 23. – fundamental studies on the sense of touch introduced the concept of the just-noticeable difference, the smallest difference perceivable between similar stimuli
  11. 24. – theory of psychological types helped developed the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator
  12. 26. – obedience and shock experiment
  13. 27. – experiments demonstrated effects of social pressure on conformity
  14. 28. – father of psychology who established the first psychology lab in Liepzig, Germany
Down
  1. 1. – father of psychoanalysis
  2. 2. – hierarchy of needs pyramid
  3. 3. – known for identifying stages of mental development, called schema
  4. 5. – discovery of the forgetting curve (information lost over time w/ no attempt at retaining it) and spacing effect
  5. 6. – known for his work with dog salivation and classical conditioning
  6. 10. – stages of moral development
  7. 12. - pioneer of factor analysis as a statistical technique to reduce and interpret data
  8. 13. – Stanford prison experiment
  9. 15. – developed the theory of operant conditioning
  10. 16. - proposed the theory of Universal Grammar: an idea of innate, biological grammatical categories, such as a noun category and a verb category
  11. 17. – Father of American Psychology that wrote The Principles of Psychology
  12. 18. – believed personality develops in a predetermined order through the psychosexual stages of development
  13. 20. – humanistic psychologist known as the father of client-centered therapy
  14. 22. – pioneered studies on the role of hypnotism in human behavior and response
  15. 25. – developed the first intelligence test