Quia Home Home FAQ About Log in Subscribe now 30-day free trial
Java Games: Matching, concentration, word search, and flashcards.

Important People in Psychology

these games review the names of people who have made important contributions to psychology


AB
Wundtfather of psychology; founder of structuralism
JamesAmerican psychologist; founder of functionalism
Galtoninstigated the heredity vs environment debate
Pavlovclassical conditioning; dog salivating experiment
Skinneroperant conditioning; rats and pigeons
BanduraBobo doll study; modeling; Social Learning Theory
Freudpsychoanalysis; unconscious
Eriksonpsychosocial development theory
Jungpsychoanalytical; collective unconscious, archetypes
Horneysocial psychoanalytic; parent-child relationship; security/insecurity
Sullivansocial psychoanalytic; interpersonal relationships; dynamism, personification, cognitive processes
Allporttrait/type theorist: special and common traits; cardinal, cental, secondary disposition
Watsonbehaviorism; Baby Albert
Seligmanlearned helplessness; dog experiment
Harlowcontact comfort; monkey study
Rogershumanist; person centered therapy; unconditional positive regard; organism and self
Hornermotivation in women; fear of success
Piagetcognitive development; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
Kohlercognitive learning: insight learning
Cover Jonesbehaviorist, counter conditioning of Baby Albert
TermanStanford-Binet test; longitudinal study on giftedness
WeschlerIQ tests: verbal and performance items
Steinbergmultiple intelligences
Dovecultural bias in IQ testing
Elliscognitive theory; rational emotive therapy; didactic teaching
BerneTA therapy; failed interpersonal communications; PAC diagramming
Zimbardoprison study; social psychology
Lorenzimprinting; critical period
WhorfLiguistic relativity hypothesis; language helps form our perception of the world
Cattelltrait/type theory; surface and source traits
Titchnerstructuralism
Adlersocial psychoanalytic; inferiority to creative self (football diagram)
Frommsocial psychoanalytic; freedom leads to lonliness; balance identity with belonging
Sheldontrait/type theory; somatotype, endo, meso, ecto
Maslowhumanist, hierarchy of needs
McClellanmotivation; thematic apperception test (TAT)
Kubler Rossdeath and dying; DABDA
Kohlbergstages of moral development
Tolmancognitive learning; latent learning, cognitive maps, reveal learning when there is a payoff
Thorndikeinstrumental conditioning; trial and error, cats in puzzle box
Ebbinghausforgetting curve
Binetfirst IQ test; French
Rorschachprojective test; inkblots
Marciaidentity states; diffusion, achievement, moratorium
PerlsGestalt therapy; awareness of here and now
Milgramobedience studies; shock them
Aschconformity studies; line study
Festingercognitive dissonance
ChomskyLAD; innate biological mechanism to learn language
Lashleyengram and memory trace
Ainsworthseparation anxiety
Rotterlocus of control
Halldiscontinous vs continous development
Jensenwrote article about failure of Head Start; H vs E debate on intelligence
Hilgardhidden observer in hypnosis
Thurston7 factors of intelligence
Walk and Gibsonvisual cliff of depth perception
Baumrindparenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive