People In Psychology

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Adler

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developed "individual psychology".

believed that strivings for superiority drive behavior

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Asch

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social conformity

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atkinson

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3-stage model of memory storage

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bandura

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experimentally investigated observational learning, emphasizing the role of cognitive factors
"children don't need punishment or reward to learn"

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beck

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cognitive therapy

rational thoughts to overcome fears

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cannon

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theory of emotion: physical, emotional stimuli happen simultaneously with no casual relationship

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chomsky

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innant language acquisition device; emphasis on biological factors.

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ellis

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rational emotive therapy: self-defeating thoughts cause psychological problems

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erickson

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people go through 8 stages of development

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festinger

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cognitive dissonnance (awareness of inconsistencies in thoughts, feelings, behaviors)

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freud

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psychoanalysis, unconscious

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galton

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eugenics (selective reproduction)

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jung

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analytical psychology, collective unconscious

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maslow

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humanistic psychologist who developed a theory of motivation

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pavlov

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Russian physiologist whose research contributed to the development of behaviorism; discovered the basic learning process called classical conditioning

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Wundt

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German physiologist who founded psychology as a formal science; opened first psychological research laboratory in 1879

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Gardner

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Contemporary American psychologist whose theory of intelligence states that there is not one intelligence, but multiple independent intelligences

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Titchener

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British-born American psychologist who founded structuralism, the first school of psychology

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Spearman

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British psychologist who advanced the theory that a general intelligence factor, called the _g_ factor, is responsible for overall intellectual functioning

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Thorndike

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American psychologist who was the first to experimentally study animal behavior and document how active behaviors are influenced by their consequences; postulated the law of effect

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Rogers

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American psychologist who founded the school of humanistic psychology.

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Watson

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American psychologist who founded behaviorism, emphasizing the study of observable behavior and rejecting the study of mental processes

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Skinner

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American psychologist and leading proponent of behaviorism; developed a model of learning called operant conditioning; emphasized studying the relationship between environmental factors and observable behavior

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Wolpe

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systematic desensitization.

"behavior is learned and therefore, can be unlearned"

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wertheimer

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gestalt psychology (the whole is greather than the sum of it's parts)

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Piaget

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Swiss child psychologist whose infueuntial theory proposed that children progress through distinct stages of cognitive development