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American psychologist (1842-1910) who looked at the ends or purpose of behaviors and advocated the use of scientific and experimental standards in research, He advocated the "Stream of Consciousness" theory and researched the effects of religion on psychology. |
William James |
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Austrian psychologist (1856-1939) who developed the methods of free association and dream interpretation leading to his founding of the science of psychoanalysis. He coined the terms Id, Ego, Oedipus Complex, and Electra Complex |
Sigmund Freud |
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German born American psychologist (1902-1994) coined the phrase identity crisis and did not believe that ego was set at birth but shaped by experiences in life. His work led to his theory of eight psychosocial stages in the life cycle. |
Erik Erikson |
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French psychologist (1857-1911) who along with Theodore Simon created the first intelligence test in 1905 |
Alfred Binet |
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American psychologist (1880-1955) who studied optics and concluded that what a person sees is largely dependent on their previous experiences. |
Albert Ames |
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Austrian psychologist (1870-1937) who disagreed with Freud believing that will to power is more important that sexual drive in behavior. He also coined the terms inferiority complex and overcompensation. |
Alfred Adler |
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American psychologist (1933-1984) who id famous for doing work which created the ideas of "six Degrees of Separation). He is best known for his studied at Yale on obedience to authority in which people were willing to administer electric shocks to innocent protesting people because the researcher told them it was required by the experimental protocol. |
Stanley Milgram |
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American psychologist (1878-1958) who conducted the famous "Little Albert Experiment" in which a nine-year old child exposed to different stimuli to judge his fear response. They exposed him to a white furry rat which he showed no fear the rat until he became a fearful of the rat without noise |
John B. Watson |
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American psychologist (1874-1949) who examined the behavior of cats and dogs with a "puzzle box" and then determined students were encouraged to learn by achieving positive results, and that being wrong did not teach them to correct their errors. |
Edward Thorndike |
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American psychologist (1904-1990) who founded the school of Operant conditioning using his namesake box to test pigeons and rats |
B.F. Skinner |
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Swiss psychologist (1844-1922) who developed his namesake ink-blot test for subconscious thought |
Herman Rorschach |
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Swiss psychologist (1896-1980) who worked with early-childhood development which influenced modern teaching methods for schools and their curricula |
Jean Piaget |
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Russian behavioral biologist/ psychologist (1849-1936) who won the 1904 Noble Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the physiology of digestion. He is the founder pf the school of classical conditioning based upon his work with dogs and a dinner bell. |
Ivan Pavlov |
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American psychologist (1908-1970) who founded the school of humanistic psychology he created the standard psychological concepts of hierarchy of needs and self-actualization |
Abraham Maslow |
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Estonian born German psychologist ( 1887-1967) who was a co-founder of the gestalt theory which emphasizes problem solving based on a process of insight rather that trial and error. |
Wolfgang Kohler |
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Swiss psychologist (1875-1961) who collaborated with Sigmund Freud until 1914 when they disagreed over the importance of sexuality in causing psychological problems. He studied myth, religion, and sream symbolism and their effects on the psychology of people. He saw the unconscious as the source of spiritual insight, also distinguished between introverts and extroverts. |
Carl Jung |
