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Frances Galton
Maintained that personality and ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance.
(Human traits are Inherited)
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution;
Survival of the Fittest-Origin of the Species
William Wundt
Introspection
Father of Modern or Scientific Psychology
John Watson
Founder of Behavorism
Applied Classical Conditioning to Advertising.
Little Albert Experiment w/the white rat.
Alfred Adler
Neo-Freudian
Believed social tensions shaped personality
Believed people are primarily searching for self esteem and achieving the ideal self.
Known for individual psychology.
People had to overcome feelings on inferiority.
Carl Jung
Disciple of Freud; Extended his theories.
Collective/Personal unconscious
Coined terms Introversion/Extraversion.
Known for analytical psychology.
Gordon Allport
3 Levels of Traits;
Cardinal (Dominant traits),
Central Traits (Common to all people), and Secondary Traits (Surfaces in some situations but not others)
Albert Ellis
Father of Rational Emotive Theory, which focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behaviour and emotion
Confrontational approach.
Abraham Maslow
Humanist Psychologist; Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Carl Rogers
Humanist Psychologist; Believed people will naturally strive for self actualization and high self esteem, unless society taints them.
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