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AP Psychology Important Names
AP Psychology Important Names
AP Psychology Important Names
Socrates - dualism
Plato- dualism, knowledge is innate
Aristotle - monism
John Locke- mind at birth is tabula rasa, blank slate
Wilhelm Wundt - Structuralism , concious awareness, introspection
William James - functionalism
Mary Whiton Calkins - first women president of APA
Margaret Floy Washburn - first women to earn a ph. D. in psychology
G. Stanley Hall- study of child development, first president of APA
Max Wertheimer - Gestalt psychology, total experience, whole is more important than the sum of the parts
Sigmund Freud- Psychoanalysis, discovered the unconscious mind, early childhood experiences
Ivan Pavlov- Behaviorism, experiment with dog salvation and food
John Watson - Behaviorism, Albert and white rat
B.F. Skinner- Behaviorism, reinforcement and punishment, rat electroshock
Abraham Maslow- Humanistic
Carl Rogers- Humanistic
Charles Darwin -natural selection, survival adaptation
CHAPTER 7- COGNITION
George Sperling- iconic memory, asked participants which letters they remembered
George Miller- capacity of short term memory is 7 unrelated bits of info at one time
Alexander Luria- studied a patient with eidetic memory who could repeat a list of 70 letters or digits
Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart- levels of processing theory
Hermann Ebbinghaus- foregetting curve, the order of the items in a list is related to whether or not we will
recall the
B.F. Skinner- children learn language by association, reinforcement and imitation
Noam Chomsky- nativist theory of language acquisition
Benjamin Whorf- linguistic relativity hypothesis, different languages cause people to view the world quite
differently
CHAPTER 9- DEVELOPMENT
Konrad Lorenz- infant animals attach to the care giver , geese tam bilmiyom
Harley Harlow - wirelike monkey, importance of psychological needs
Mary Ainsworth- strange situation , studied attachment
Diana Baumrind- how parenting styles affect the emotional growth of the children
Vygotsky- sociocultural theory of cognitive development , role of envoriment, nurture , the zone of
proximal development
Sigmun Freud- psychosexual development theory
Erik Erikson- stage theory of psychosocial development , neofreudian, we continue to grow beyond
teenage years
Jean Piaget- theory of cognitive development, recognized children think differently from adults, knowledge
begins with schemas
Lawrence Kohlberg- stages of moral development, used Heinz dilemma
Carol Gilligan- gender based developmental differences, kohl bergs assumption that girls would come to
the same moral conclusion is wrong
Charles Spearman- intelliegence is single underlying trait and each trait influences each other, g factor
John Horn and Raymond Cattell- divided spermans g into two, fluid and crystalized intelligence
Howard Gardner- multiple intelligence
Robert Sternberg- triarchic theory of intelligence
Peter Salovey and John Mayer- social intelligence
Daniel Goleman- Emotional Intelligence
Francis Galton-nativist, intelligence must be inherited, founder of psychometrics
James Mckeen Cattell- brought Dalton’s studies to USA, strength, reaction time, sensitivity and pain
Alfred Binet- French government identify which students in class need special attention
Thedore Simon- first measurabşe IQ test for students, Binnet-Simon scale
Lewis Terman- Stanford-Binet IQ test
David Wechsler- Wechsler test, most widely used adult intelligence test.
CHAPTER 12- ABNORMALITIES
Aaron Beck- cognitive theorist, depression results from unreasonably negative ideas that people have
about themselves, their world, and their futures - cognitive triad
Martin Seligman- learned helplessness
Hippocrates and Galen- proposed that psychological problems have physical or biological causesand can
be treated. medicine
Philippe Pinel and Dorothea Dix - reformers, leading the call to treat victims of mental illness more
humanely.
Carl Rogers- client centered therapy
Fritz Perls- Gestalt therapy
Mary Cover Jones- counterconditioning
Aaron Beck- Cognitive Behavioral therapy
Albert Ellis- rational emotive therapy