AP psychology names 3
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- William Sheldon
- Theory that personality is related to body type (meso endo ecto)
- Sigmund Freud
- Psychoanalytic theory focusing on Id Ego Superego
- Karen Horney
- countered freud saying personality is fluid, contiually molded by current fears and impulses
- Mary Cover Jones
- Systematic Desensitization
- Martin Seligman
- Learned Helplesness
- H. Ebbinghas
- The first to conduct a scientific study of forgetting we forget quickly first then slowly
- Hubel/Wisel
- Did studies of activities of neurons in the visual cortex
- Young-Helmholz-Trichromatic theory of colour vision
- 3 types of color receptors in eyes
- Clark Hull-Drive Theory
- goal of all motivated behaviour is to reduce basic drives
- Walter B. Cannon
- believed gastric activity in empty stomach was only cause of hunger
- Broca's Area
- left frontal lobe that directs muscle movement involved in speach..."Tan"
- Wernick's Area
- Area involved in language understanding. Lesions cause people to say correct words but make no sense
- Ernst Weber
- Just Noticable Difference
- Fechers Law
- States that intensity is proportional to the number of JND's above the absolute threshold
- Kubler-Ross
- Theorized that terminally ill go through 5 stages, Denial anger bargaining with god depression acceptance
- Robert Zajoc
- It is possible to feel without knowing why
- David McClelland
- TAT
- Henry Murray
- Said need to achieve varies in people and that it affects their tendancy to approach success and evaluate their performances
- Paul Ekman
- Theory that facial expressions are universal