Its About Famous Psychologists

Famous psychologists

20 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

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Question 1
Mary Whiton Calkins
Dream research, self-psychology, first woman president of the american psychological association
Question 2
Charles Darwin
Theory of evolution, which shaped the course of evolutionary psychology
Question 3
Dorothea Dix
Created first generation of insane asylums
Question 4
Sigmund Freud
Father of psych, personality through psychosexual stages, conscious vs unconscious, id/ego/superego, psychoanalysis
Question 5
G. Stanley Hall
First president of the american psychological association, childhood development, evolutionary theory
Question 6
William James
Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment; wrote first psychology textbook - The Principles of Psychology
Question 7
Ivan Pavlov
Classical conditioning (dogs), automatic learning, teaches response to behavior
Question 8
Jean Piaget
Cognitive development, assimilation/accommodation
Question 9
Carl Rogers
Non-directive client centered therapy, unconditional positive regard
Question 10
B.F. Skinner
Developed operant conditioning, produces voluntary behaviors, reinforcement (pos/neg), aversive conditioning, schedules of reinforcement
Question 11
Margaret Floy Washburn
Experimental work in animal behavior, motor theory development, first woman to recieve a PhD in psychology
Question 12
John B. Watson
Little albert model, generalization/discrimination, discovered counter conditioning
Question 13
Wilhelm Wundt
Father of psychology, first psychology research lab in Leipzig, Germany; research on workings of senses; applied scientific method to psychology; used Introspection
Question 14
Paul Broca
Discovered area in the brain (named for him) in the left frontal lobe responsible for language production
Question 15
Michael Gazzaniga
Split brain specialist, corpus callosum split, concious/un