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Torsten Wiesel |
Occipital lobe discovered, feature detectors
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Ernest Hilgard |
Researched hypnosis
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Albert Bandura |
Soc/cog psych, observational learning, bobo the doll, obs violence => being violent, theory of determinism
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John Garcia |
Taste aversion learning called the "garcia effect"
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Robert Rescorla |
Rescorla-wagner model of conditioning, elementary learning processes, pavlovian conditioning/ instrumental learning
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Edward Thorndike |
Law of effect, do good - good consequences - do again
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Edward Tolman |
Latent learning and cognitive maps
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Noam Chomsky |
Revolutionized ideas about language. Proposed humans are born with an innate language acquisition device that allows them to acquire language skills easily.
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Herman Ebbinghaus |
Pioneer memory researcher, discovered forgetting curve, used self as own subject, very controlled
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Wolfgang Kohler |
Gestalt psychology
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Elizabeth Loftus |
Research on memory construction and the misinformation effect created doubts about the accuracy of eye-witness testimony
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