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Personality Important Names
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11/05/2010

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A. Adler
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Psychodynamic theorist best known for the concept of inferiority complex.
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G. Allport
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G. Allport Trait theorist known for the concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
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Bandura, A.
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Behavior theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment using punching bag ("bobo" doll)
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Bem, S.
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Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; also linked with concept of androgyny.
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Cattell, R.
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Trait theorist who used factor analysisto study personality.
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Cattell, R.
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Trait theorist who used factor analysisto study personality.
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Cattell, R.
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Trait theorist who used factor analysisto study personality.
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Dollar, J. and Miller, N.
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Behavior theorists who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoiadnce conflicts.
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Erikson, E.
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Ego psychologist whose psychosocial stages of development encompass the entire lifespan
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Eysenck, H.
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Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ; introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism.
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Freud, A.
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Founder of ego psychology.
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Jung, C.
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Psychodynamic theorist who broke with Freud over the concept of libido; suggested that the unconscious could be divided into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, with archetypes being in the collective unconscious
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Freud, S.
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Originator of the psychodynamicapproach to personality
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Horney, K.
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Psychodynamic theorist who suggested there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward, moving against and moving away from
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Kelly, G.
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Based personality theory on the notion of "individual as a scientist"
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Kernberg, O. and Klein, M.
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Object-relations theorists
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Lewin, K.
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Phenomenological personality theoristwho developed field theory
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Mahler, M.
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Object relations theorist
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Maslow, A.
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Phenomenological personality theoristknown for developing a heirarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization.
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McClelland, D.
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tudied need for achievement (nAch)
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Mischel, W.
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Critic of trait theories of personality
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Rogers, C.
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Phenomenological personality theorist
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Rotter, J.
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Studied locus of control
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Sheldon, W.
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Attempted to relate somatotype to personality type
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Skinner, B. F.
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Behaviorist
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Witkin, H.
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Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame set.
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