Famous Figures in Psychology

1. studied taste aversion and conditioned sickness in rats
2. most famous for his research on hypnosis, especially concerning pain control
7. developed a model of three intelligences: analytical, creative, and practical intelligence
9. developed the hierarchy of needs, and the concept of self-actualization
10. studied monkeys' attachment with artificial mothers
11. three main types of parenting styles (permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian)
12. developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, a confrontational therapy that involves vigorously challenging people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes
13. fuctionalist, one of the psychologists that stated arousal comes before emotion
14. developed a theory of moral development in children (preconventional, conventional, and postconventional morality)
16. best known for his longitudinal study on temperament and how it affects later personality
19. studied attachment in infants by using the "strange situation" model
23. humanistic psychologist, developed client-centered therapy, involving active listening
24. most famous for his work on operant conditioning
25. investigated how heuristics were used in decision-making (availability, anchoring, and representativeness heuristics)

1. criticized Kolhberg's moral development theory and believed that women's moral sense is guided by relationships
3. created the concept of "collective unconscious", a common, inherited reservoir of memory
4. most famous for his experiment which involved seven mentally healthy individuals making up symptoms and admitting themselves to psychiatric hospitals
5. described cognitive dissonance theory
6. specialized in language development, claiming that humans have an inborn ability to develop language
8. memorized nonsense syllables to study human memory, found that forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time
15. stated that behaviors were learned through the process of observational learning
17. conducted research in the misinformation effect
18. neo-freudian who offered a feminist critique on Freud's theory
20. founded the concept of learned helplessness by conducting experiments on dogs
21. developed cognitive-behavior therapy, which involves reversing clients' catastrophizing beliefs
22. behaviorist, conducted the "Little Albert" experiment
26. interested most in facial expressions, and studied microexpressions as a means of lie detection
27. conformity experiment that involved matching lengths of lines