Famous Psychologists

Neo-Freudian; individual psychology; striving for superiority; inferiority complex; sibling rivalry

Neo-Freudian; basic anxiety; womb envy; healthy personality = moving toward, moving against, moving away

confabulation or false memory; challenges with eyewitness testimony; reconstructive nature of memory; misinformation effect

g-factor, S-factor; mental talents highly correlated; early advocate of more than one type of intelligence

Nobel Prize winner in med. for work with split brain patients; split patient's copus collosum; lateralization of function; tried helping epilepsy patients

Classical conditioning; UCS elicits a UCR; dogs, salivation to meat powder and tuning fork; acquisition, extinction, generalization, discrimination

sensorimotor, preoperational, concerete operational, formal operational; schema (assimilation v. accomodation)

well known depression inventory; challenge irrational beliefs; negative cognitive triad

Cognitive dissonance; usually leads people to change beliefs to fit their

Forgetting curve; learning curve; early studies in memory; nonsense syllables memorized in study

Humanist; focus on healthy individuals; personal growth; self-concept; congruence vs. incongruent self-concept; AGE: Acceptance, genuineness, empathy

revised Simon Binet IQ test for American children; revision known as STANFORD-BINET; longitudinal study of gifted kids = Termites

Stanford Prison Study, social roles and behavior; power of the situation; new research: altruism

humanist; Hierarchy of Needs; lower level needs dominate higher level needs; goal: self-actualization

moral development: preconventional morality, conventional morality, post-conventional morality

Bobo doll study; observational/social learning; social-cognitive perspective of personality; modeling (behavior);

psychoanalysis; 3 part personality: Id, Ego, Superego; psychosexual stages of development; fixations; defense mechanisms; manifest & latent content; free association

Cognitive therapist; rational emotive therapy (RET & REBT); ABC: activating event, beliefs about event, consequences

conformity; line study: 70% of participants went along with incorrect response

sociocultural theory; scaffolding; Zone of Proximal Development; the more knowledgeable other

Collective unconscious; archetypes; anima and animus; introversion v extroversion; neofreudian

founder of behaviorism, Little Albert study (UCS, UCR, NS, CS, CR) Classical conditioning of fear

Obedience to authority; shocks: 65% of "teachers" went all the way; presence of someone else who disobeys increases disobedience