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Important People in Psychology

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

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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; reciprocal determinism
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
Weschlerintelligence tests: verbal and performance items
Gardnermultiple 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
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, foreclosure
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
Fechnerabsolute threshold
Garciaconditioned taste aversion
Sharifsuperordinate goals
Sternbergtriarchic theory of intelligence
Spearmang factor of intelligence
Vygotskyzone of proximal development (ZPD)
Hulldrive reduction theory of motivation
Millershort term memory research
Schactereating research and emotion theory
Cannon Bardemotion theory; simultaneous
James Langeemotion theory; body tells mind
Loftusresearch on memory and eyewitness testimony
Hobson and McCarlyactivation synthesis hypothesis; dream research
Cartwrightnetwork model of dream; problem solving
Hallinfo processing model of dreaming; process daily info
Ekmanfacial expression
McCrae and CostaBig 5 personality traits


AP Psychology teacher @ FHS
Frederick High School
Frederick, MD

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