Famous psychologists

famous psychologists

1. Willhelm Wundt
•Introspection-
Psychology & the
study of conscious
experience
•Father of Psychology
•University of Leipzig

2. Alfred Adler
•Neo-Freudian
•Superiority complex
•Inferiority complex
•Sibling rivalry
•Birth order

3. Carl Jung
•People have
conscious &
unconscious
awareness
•Archetypes
•Collective
Unconscious

4. Gordon Allport
•Cardinal Traits
(dominant personality
characteristic)
•Central Traits
•Secondary Traits
•PERSONALITY
theorist

5. Albert Ellis
•Rational Emotive
Therapy
•Cognitive Therapist
•Focuses on altering a
client’s irrational
thinking to reduce
maladaptive behavior
and emotions.

6. John Watson
•Founder of
behaviorism
•Little Albert study
•Rosalie Rayner (his
graduate student and
later his wife)
•Conditioning fear

7. Abraham Maslow
•Hierarchy of Needs
•Lower level needs
dominate higher level
needs
•Goal is to be self-
actualized

8. Carl Rogers
•Humanist
•Personal growth
•Empathy,
acceptance,
understanding

9. B.F. Skinner
•Behaviorism
•Skinner Box
•Operant Conditioning

10. Ivan Pavlov
•Classical conditioning
•UCS elicits a UCR
•Dogs
•Salivation to meat
powder & tuning fork
•UCS, UCR, CS, CR

11. Noam Chomsky
•Language
•Cognitive Perspective
•Humans have an
inborn native ability to
develop language.

12. Erik Erikson

13. David Weschler
•WAIS
•Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Test for
Adults
•Intelligence test for
adults (S-B test is not
good in assessing
adult intelligence)

14. Jean Piaget
•Cognitive
Development of
children
•Sensorimotor
•Preoperational
•Concrete Operational
•Formal Operational

15. Robert Sternberg
•Tricarchic theory of
intelligence
–Academic problem
solving
–Practical intelligence
–Creative intelligence

16. Lawrence Kohlberg
•Preconventional
morality
•Conventional morality
•Post-conventional
morality

17. Phineas Gage
•Brain is involved with
emotions & behavior
& personality
•Frontal Lobe

18. Lewis Terman
•Revised IQ test for
American children
and standardized
norms for American
kids.

19. Howard Gardner
•Theory of multiple
intelligences
–Practical intelligence
–Emotional intelligence
–Natural intelligence
–Analytical intelligence
–Etc….

20. Diana Baumrind
•Parenting styles
–Permissive
–Authoritative
–Authoritarian

21. Albert Bandura
•Bobo Doll
•Observational
Learning
•Social-Cognitive
Perspective of
personality

22. E.L. Thorndike
•Law of Effect
•Behaviorist

23. Alfred Binet
•First IQ test
•Intelligence Quotient

24. Charles Spearman
•g= general ability
•Mental talents are
highly correlated
•Intelligence is NOT
multiple….

25. Harry Harlow
•UW Madison
•Rhesus monkeys
•Attachment is not = to
food, comfort and
warmth and love is
important, too!

26. Herman Rorschach
•Projective test
•Ink blots

27. Carol Gilligan
•Moral reasoning in
girls.
•Nurturing and caring
part of a girl’s DNA –
should count in moral
reasoning.
•Dislikes Kohlberg’s
Morality Stages.

28. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
•DABDA – Stages of
Death & Dying
–Denial
–Anger
–Bargaining
–Depression
–Acceptance

29. Martin Seligman
•Learned
Helplessness
•Positive Psychology

30. Stanley Milgram
•Obedience
•Shocks
•How far will people
go?

31. Elizabeth Loftus
•Memory
•False memories of
childhood traumas
•Repression of
threatening childhood
memories

32. Mary Whiton Calkins
•First woman president
of the APA.
•Denied a Ph.D. from
Harvard for being
female.

33. Phillip Zimbardo
•Stanford Prison Study
•Power of social roles
and behavior
•“The Lucifer Effect”

34. Karen Horney
•Neo-Freudian
•Thought Freud was a little
over-sexed.
•Parental influences very
important on childhood.
•Children fear being
abandoned &
helplessness – she called
this basic anxiety.