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Alfred Adler
[image]1830-1937 |
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| He was a psychotherapist who discovered the school of individual psychology. |
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John Watson
[image]1878-1958 |
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| He established the psychological school of behaviorism. |
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Sir Francis Galton
1822-1911[image] |
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| Sir Francis Galton was a pioneer in the understanding of human intelligence. He was knighted in 1909 for his work in psychology, anthropology, and exploration. |
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Karen Horney
1885-1952[image] |
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| She was a psychoanalysist who came up with the idea of neurosis as well as questioning many Freudian theories. |
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Jean Piaget
1896-1980[image] |
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| He developed atheory of cognitive development mixed with epistemological studies from children. |
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Anna Freud
1895-1982[image] |
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| Anna was the sixth and last child of Sigmund Freud and followed her father into psychoanalysis. |
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Abraham Maslow
1908-1970[image] |
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| He created the heirarchy of needs and he stressed the fulfillment of basic human needs resulting in self-actualization. |
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Wilhelm Wundt
1832-1920[image] |
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| Wilhelm saw importance in introspection and he also created the first psychology lab. |
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Carl Jung
1875-1961[image] |
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| He was the founder of analytical psychology and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion. |
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
1850-1909 |
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| He discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also one of the first to talk about the learning curve too. |
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William James
1842-1910[image] |
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| He developed American psychology as well as the James-Lange theory of emotion. He also discussed pragmatism and functionalism. |
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G. Stanley Hall
1844-1924[image] |
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| He was an American psychologist who focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. |
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Edward Thorndike
1874-1949[image] |
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| He was the father of modern educational psychology. He dicovered the law of effect and came up with the trial-and-error theory of learning. |
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Ivan Pavlov
1849-1936[image] |
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| His work primarily focused on classical conditioning, which was demonstrated in his experiment with giving dogs food and ringing a bell. |
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B. F. Skinner
1904-1990[image] |
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| He developed the idea of operant conditioning as well as the schedules of reinforcement. |
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Erik Erikson
1902-1994[image] |
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| Erik came up with a theory on psychosocial development of humans. |
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Carl Rogers
1902-1987[image] |
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| Carl was one of the founders of the humanistic approach. |
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Charles Darwin
1809-1882[image] |
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| Charles Darwin's work on evolution provided the basic framework for thinking about human behavior. |
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Sigmund Freud
1856-1939[image] |
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| He was the founding father of psychoanalysis and came up with many theories about the human mind. |
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Edward Titchener
1867-1927[image] |
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| He had an impact on the school of thought known as structuralism and on introspection. He also coined the term empathy. |
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Mary Whiton Calkins
1863-1930[image] |
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| She was best known for her self-psychology and inventing the paired-associate technique. |
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Margaret Floy Washburn
1871-1939[image] |
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| She was the first woman to get a phd in psychology and she developed theories about the animal mind as well as the motor theory. |
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Gordon Allport
1897-1967[image] |
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| He was one of the first psychologists to study personality, and is often mentioned as being the founder of personality psychology. |
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Gustav Fechner
1801-1887[image] |
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| German physicist and philosopher who was a key figure in the founding of psychophysics, the science concerned with quantitative relations between sensations and the stimuli producing them. |
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Max Wertheimer
1880-1943[image] |
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| He was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology. |
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Roger Perry
1913-1994[image] |
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| Roger shattered many traditional psychological theories through his research and his discovery of the split-brain. |
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Edward Tolman
1886-1959[image] |
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- Cognitive behaviorism
- Research on cognitive maps
- Theory of latent learning
- The concept of an intervening variable
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Lawrence Kohlberg
1927-1987[image] |
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| Lawrence developed different stages of moral development. |
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Carol Giligan
1936-[image] |
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| She challenged kohlberg's work, and developed much on the subject of relationships. |
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Alfred Binet
1857-1911[image] |
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| He invented the first practical intelligence test. |
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