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The 24 most important psychologists to be familiar with for the AP Psychology Exam
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05/02/2008

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Mary Ainsworth
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Placed human infants into a “strange situation” in order to examine attachment to parents.

Secure
Anxious-ambivalent insecure
Anxious-avoidant insecure
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Solomon Asch
Definition
Conformity experiment – people incorrectly reported lengths of lines
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Albert Bandura
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Social-learning theory of modeling- observational learning

Reciprocal determinism- personality determined by personal traits, environment, behavior interacting

self-efficacy- feeling of how effective you are- affects personality
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Alfred Binet
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Created first intelligence test
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Noam Chomsky
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Theorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition
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Erik Erikson
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Psychosocial theory of development.

Trust v mistrust
Autonomy v shame and doubt
initiative v guilt
industry v inferiority
identity v role confusion
intimacy v isolation
Generativity v stagnation
integrity v despair
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Sigmund Freud
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Psychosexual stages of personality (fixation)

Stressed importance of unstated desires

ego, id, superego

Psychoanalytic therapy

Dreams show the id
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Carol Gilligan
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Challenged just how good Kholberg's moral development theory really was.
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Harry Harlow
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Monkey attachment experiments- physical comfort is important, having a mother is important.
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David Hubel & Torsten Wiesel
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Discovered feature detectors - groups of neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different types of visual stimuli.
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William James
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Published The Principles of Psychology, the first text book of psychology
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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Moral development stage theory-

preconventional
conventional
postconventional
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Elizabeth Loftus
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Demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory
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Abraham Maslow
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Humanistic psychologist

Hierarchy of needs, self-actualization
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Stanley Milgram
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Obedience studies
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Ivan Pavlov
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Classical conditioning w/ dogs and salivation.
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Jean Paiget
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Stage theory of cognitive development

Sensorimotor- no object permanence
preoperational- ego centrism
concrete operations- begins to logic well
formal operations- fully abstract capability
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Robert Rescorla
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Developed the contingency model of classical conditioning- strength of CR depends on how unbroken stimuli are
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Carl Rogers
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Humanistic – person client centered therapy, unconditional positive regard

Self theory of personality- humans are innately good, able to do whatever they try to do. Self-esteem, self-concept play large role in self theory
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Stanley Schacter
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Two factor theory of emotion- emotion depends on interaction between actual response and cognitive label.
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B. F. Skinner
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Operant conditioning
Skinner Box
Reinforcment
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John Watson
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Father of behaviorism – only worry about actual physical stuff, not mental stuff.
Classically condition fear with Baby Albert experiment.
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Benjamin Whorf
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Linguistic relativity hypothesis- the words we know limit what we think.
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Wilhelm Wundt
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Set up first psychological lab in Germany
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