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Benjamin Whorf
Cognition. The linguistic relativity hypothesis.
Wilhelm Wundt
History and approaches. Set up first psychological lab in an appt. near the university at Leipzig, Germany. Theroy of structuralism.
Robert Rescorla
Learining. Developed the contingency model of classical conditioning
Solomon Asch
Social Psychology. Conformity experiment- people incorrectly reported lenths of lines. Impression formation study-proffessor was warm or cold
Harry Harlow
Developmental psychology. Experimented with infant monkeys and attachment
BF Skinner
Learning. Reinforcement. Operant Conditioning. Invented skinner box
Carol Gilligan
Developmental Psychology. Challenged the universality of Kohlberg's moral development theroy
Jean Piaget
Developmental Psychology. Stage thery of cognitive development
William James
methods, and history and approaches. Published The Principles of Psychology-first textbook. Functionalism.
Noam Chomsky
Cognition. Therorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition.
Albert Bandura
Learning and personality. Social-learning theroy. Reciprocal determinism. Self-efficacy
Stanley Schachter
Motivation and emotion. Two-factor thery of emotion
Lawrence Kohlberg
Developmental Psychology. Stage theroy of moral development.
Sigmund Freud
Personality and states of consciousness. Psychosexual stage theroy of personality. Stressed importance of unconcious and sexual drive. Psychoanalytic therapy. Thery of dreaming
Erik Erikson
Developmental Psychology. Psychosocial stage therory of development. neo-Freudian
John Watson
Learining. Father of behaviorism. Baby Albert Experiment.
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Sensation and perception. Discovered feature detectors, groups of neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different types of visual stimuli
Carl Rogers
Treatment of Psychological disorders and peronality. Humanistic physchologist-person centered therapy and unconditional positive regard. Self theroy of personality
Abraham Maslow
Motivation and emothion and treatment of psychological disorders. Humanistic psychologist. Hierarchy of needs, self-actualization.
Mary Ainsworth
Developmental Psychology. Placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attachment to parents
Alfred binet
Testing and individual differences. Developmental Psychology and creater of the first intelligence test
Stanley Milgram
Social Psychology. Obedience studies-participants think they are shocking a learner
Ivan Pavlov
Learning. classical conditioning studies with dogs and salvation
Elizabeth Loftus
Cognition. Demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory

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