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-Proposed the theory that body weight and a persons personality are linked
- Broke humans into three different somatotypes: endomorphic, mesomorpic and endomorphic
- Endomorphic: characterized by long and thin muscles/limbs and low fat storage; receding chin, usually referred to as slim
- Mesomorpic: characterized by medium bones, solid torso, low fat levels, wide shoulders with a narrow waist; usually referred to as muscular
- Ectomorphic: characterized by long and thin muscles/limbs and low fat storage; receding chin, usually referred to as slim |
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| - Developed the Inkblot test and proposed that his test was designed to reportedly reflect unconcious parts of the personality that "project" onto the stimuli |
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- Developed and test the theory that personal attachment comes from physical contact
- Tested this by placing baby monkeys and giving them robotic, surrogate mothers and found that those with the surrogate mothers had normal social development and those without them didn't
- Stated that contact comfort gives stimulation and reassurance derived from the physical touch of a caregiver |
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| Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders. The term is often used to refer to psychoanalytic theory |
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| Freud's theory of personality that the actions of the unconscious mind are powered by motives, drives and desires and this drives our personality |
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| Freud's personality theory |
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Freud theorized that persoanlity is a battle between two parts of your identity: ego and id while superego was the middle ground of the two
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| THe primitive, unconscious portion of the personality that houses the most basic drives and stores repressed memories |
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| The mind's storehouse of values, including moral attidues learned from parents and society; roughly the same as the common notion of the conscience |
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| The conscious, rational part of the personality, charged with keeping peace between the superego and the id |
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- Founder of operant conditioning and based his career on the idea that the most powerful influences on behavior are its consequences
- Proved that the Law of effect, or the idea that responses that produced desireable results would be learned, or"stamped" into the organism
- Founded the term reinforcer, or a condition (involving either the presentation or removal of a stimulus) that occurs after a response and strengthens that response
- Developed positive (adding a stimulus) and negative (taking away a stimulus) reinforcement
- Developed the operant chamber, a boxlike apparatus that can be programmed to deliver reinforcers and punishers based on animal's behavior. Called a "skinner box" |
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| - Developed and is the father of phrenology, the psuedoscience that different regions of the brain are responsible for a persons actions or thoughts |
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| - Dog experiment and stumbled on classical conditioning, which is a basic form of learning in which a stimulus that produces an innate reflex becomes associated with a previously neutral stimulus, which then acquires the power to elicit essentially the same response |
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- the first non-human to learn to use some of the signs of a human language, that of American Sign Language
- Learned human language through operational conditioning |
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