Our Top 40 Psychologists/Psychology Contributions

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  1. 3. defined psychology as “the study of observable behavior’; outlined behavioralism principles
  2. 4. localized language function and comprehension to the left frontal lobe (___’s area)
  3. 6. Father of positive psychology and developed the theory of learned helplessness
  4. 8. a german physician who studied nerve diseases; localized a separate area of language function and reading comprehension (____’s area)
  5. 12. a humanistic psychologist who developed the hierarchy of needs; coined the term “positive psychology”
  6. 13. a baby whose experiments contributed to the understanding of classical conditioning
  7. 15. first to propose a comprehensive learning theory - learning occurs when a connection between a stimulus and a response is formed
  8. 17. theory of cognitive development and created “Piaget’s Stages” for the cognitive development of children
  9. 20. Published "The Principal of Psychology" in 1890 and defines psychology
  10. 21. First Woman to be President of American Psychological Association and introduced self psychology
  11. 23. studied cognitive development and depth perception in infants by creating a “visual cliff”
  12. 24. the first person to be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (MPD)
  13. 26. Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist who founded analytical psychology
  14. 29. One of the founding fathers of cognitive psychology as he conducted research on memory, learning, intelligence, and memory, as well as included research from many other psychologists into a theory of cognition
  15. 34. a homeless child who was thought of as “feral” until the discovery of autism
  16. 35. Research on human judgement and decision making
  17. 36. Separated psychology from philosophy and started first psychology laboratory
  18. 37. Studied racial prejudice in children by giving them a choice between white and black dolls and when most of the African American children chose the white doll, it indicated their internalized prejudice
  19. 38. Conducted research on human memory, perception, cognitive development, and learning which underlined the importance of cognition in the learning process
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  1. 1. designed the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised which is a tool used to measure the presence of psychopathic traits in people
  2. 2. cognitive psychologist who used moral dilemmas to study behavior and responses of children, adolescents, and adults
  3. 5. behaviorism, operant conditioning, and the Skinner Box
  4. 6. Worked with other psychologists on naturalistic observation and used recorders to naturally sample daily life
  5. 7. experimented to see the bond between primary caregivers and an infant which showed the disruptions in that relationship may impede personality development in that child
  6. 9. Bobo clown experiment which introduced behaviorism
  7. 10. a woman whose murder is widely known for its help in developing the Bystander Phenomenon
  8. 11. a case study of a five-year-old who was studied by Freud to contribute to his theory of childhood sexuality - the fear Hans had of horses was transferred from his desire for his mother and fear of his father - now discounted as a theory
  9. 14. first woman to earn a PhD in psychology; wrote “The Animal Mind”
  10. 16. Discovered the misinformation effect which happens when false information given after an event changes that person’s memories the the event
  11. 18. the first psychoanalytic case study in which an manic woman was returned to a normal state after talking through her troubles
  12. 19. a case study in which a boy was raised as a girl due to a botched medical procedure; contributed to “nature vs. nurture”
  13. 22. conditioning
  14. 24. Contributed to science of evolution - natural selection shapes behaviors as much as bodies
  15. 25. Rejected behaviorism and psychoanalysis for an approach that emphasized the importance of individual uniqueness and other present circumstances to understand human personality
  16. 27. Worked on theory about personality development throughout different stages of life
  17. 28. Developed personal construct theory which is a mental representation of how one person sees the world
  18. 30. a famous case study about hippocampus function; received brain surgery for epilepsy and was left with amnesia
  19. 31. structuralist school of thought and concluded that feelings, sensations and images make up conscious experiences
  20. 32. psychoanalytic perspective; Oedipus complex and psychosexual development
  21. 33. a case study that led to the development of brain mapping; construction worker whose skull was impaled