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1 The Name Game

2 Mary Ainsworth Developmental psychology; Placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attachment to parents

3 Solomon Asch Social psychology; Conformity experiment- people incorrectly reported lengths of lines; Impression formaiton study- professor was warm or cold

4 Learning and personality; Social- learning theory (modeling); Reciprocal determinism (triadic reciprocality); Self- efficacy Albert Bandura

5 Alfred Binet Testing and individual differences; Developmental psychology, and creator of the first intelligence test

6 Noam Chomsky Cognition; Theorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition

7 Erik Erikson Developmental psychology; Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages); Neo-Freudian

8 Sigmund Freud Personality and states of consciousness; Psychsexual stage theory of personality (oral, anal, phallic, and adult genital); Stressed importance of unconscious and sexual drive; Psychoanalytic therapy; Theory of dreaming

9 Carol Gilligan Developmental psychology; Challenged the universality of Kohlberg's moral development theory

10 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

11 William James Methods, and history and approaches; Published "The Principles of Psychology," psychology's first textbook; Functionalism

12 Harry Harlow Developmental psychology; Experimented with infant monkeys and attachment

13 Lawrence Kohlberg Developmental psychology; Stage theory of moral development (preconventional, conventional, and postconventional)

14 Elizabeth Loftus Cognition; Demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory

15 Abraham Maslow Motivation and emotion, and treatment of Psychological disorders; Humanistic psychologist; Hierarchy of needs, self- actualization

16 Stanley Milgram Social psychology; Obedience studies- participants think they are shocking a learner

17 Ivan Pavlov Learning; Classical conditioning studies with dogs and salivation

18 Jean Piaget Developmental psychology; Stage theory Of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, Concrete operations, and formal operations)

19 Robert Rescorla Learning; Developed the contingency model of classical conditioning

20 Carl Rogers Treatment of psychological disorders, and personality; Humanistic psychologist- person (client)- centered theraphy and unconditional positive regard; Self theory of personality

21 Stanley Schachter Motivation and emotion; Two-factor theory of emotion

22 B.F. Skinner Learning; Reinforcement; Operant conditioning; Invented Skinner box

23 John Watson Learning; Father of behaviorism; Baby Albert experiment- classically conditioned fear

24 Benjamin Whorf Cognition; The linguistic relativity hypothesis

25 Wilhelm Wundt History and approaches; Setup the first psychological laboratory in an apartment near the university at Leipzig, Germany; Theory of structuralism

26 John Garcia John Garcia had an impact on psychology by defining what we know now by the term 'Conditioned taste aversion.' Conditioned taste aversion can be viewed as a survival mechanism due to the fact that people/animals can decipher whether the food about to be eaten are poisonous or not; which essentially can avoid sickness or death.


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