Famous Psychologists

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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