Names In Developmental Psychology/names In Personality Psychology

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Ainsworth, M.

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Devised the "strange situation" to study attachment

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Baumrind, D.

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Studied the relationship between parental style and aggression

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Bowlby, J.

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Studied attachment in human children

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Chomsky, N.

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Linguist who suggested that children have an innate capacity for language acquisition.

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Erikson, E.

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Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development covering the entire lifespan

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Freud, S.

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Outlined five stages of psychosexual development; stressed the importance of the Oedipal conflict in psychosexual development.

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Gesell, A.

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Believed that development was due primarily to maturation

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Gilligan, C.

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Suggested that males and females have different orientations toward morality

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Hall, G.

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The founder of developmental psychology

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Harlow, H.

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Used monkeys and "surrogate mothers" to study the role of contact comfort in bond formation

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Kohlberg, L.

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Studied moral development using moral dilemmas

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Locke, J.

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British philosopher who suggested that infants had no predetermined tendencies, that they were blank slates (tabula rasa) to be written on by experience

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Lorenz, K.

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Studied imprinting in birds

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Piaget, J.

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Outlined four stages of cognitive development

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Rousseau, J.

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French philosopher who suggested that development could unfold without help from society

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Terman, L.

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Performed longitudinal study on gifted children

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Tryon, R.

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Studied the genetic basis of maze-running abilities in rats

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Vygotsky, L.

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Studied cognitive development; stressed the importance of the zone of proximald evelopment

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Adler, A.

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Psychodynamic theorist best known for the concept of inferiority complex

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Allport, G.

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Trait theorist known for the concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality

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Bandura, A.

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Behaviorist theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment using punching bag ("Bobo" doll)

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Bem, S.

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Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; also linked with concept of androgyny

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Cattell, R.

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Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality

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Dollard, J. and Miller, N.

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Behaviorist theorists who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts

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Erikson, E.

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Ego psychologist whose psychosocial stages of development encompass entire lifespan

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Eysenck, H.

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Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism

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Freud, A.

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Founder of ego psychology

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Freud, S.

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Originator of the psychodynamic approach to personality

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Horney, K.

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Psychodynamic theorist who suggested there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward, moving against, and moving away from

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Jung, C.

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Psychodynamic theorist who broke with Freud over the concept of libido; suggested that the unconscious could be divided into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, with archetypes being in the collective unconscious

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Kelly, G.

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Based personality theory on the notion of "individual as scientist"

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Kernberg, O.

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Object-relations theorist

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Klein, M.

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Object-relations theorist

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Lewin, K.

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Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory

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Mahler, M.

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Object-relations theorist

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Maslow, A.

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Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization

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McClelland, D.

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Studied need for achievement (nAch)

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Mischel, W.

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Critic of trait theories of personality

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Rogers, C.

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Phenomenological personality theorist

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Rotter, J.

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Studied locus of control

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Sheldon, W.

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Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type

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Skinner, B.F.

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Behaviorist

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Winnicott, D.W.

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Object-relations theorist

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Witkin, H.

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Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test