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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