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Mary Ainsworth
- Developmental Psychology
- Placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attachment to parents
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Solomon Asch
- Social Psychology
- Conformity experience - people incorrectly reported lengths of lines
- Impression formation study - professor was warm or cold
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Albert Bandura
- Learning and Personality
- Social-learning theory (modeling)
- Reciprocal determinism (triadic reciprocality)
- Self-efficacy
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Alfred Binet
- Developmental Psychology, and Testing and Individual Differences
- Creator of the first intelligence test
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Noam Chomsky
- Cognition
- Theorized the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition
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Erik Erikson
- Developmental Psychology
- Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
- Neo-Freudian
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Sigmund Freud
- Personality and States of Consciousness
- Psychosexual stage theory of personality (oral, anal, phallic, and adult genital)
- Stressed importance of unconscious and sexual drive
- Psychoanalytic therapy
- Theory of dreaming
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Carol Gilligan
Challenged the university of Kohlber's moral development theory
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Harry Harlow
- Developmental Psychology
- Experimented with infant monkeys and attachment
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David Hubel and Torstem Weisel
- Sensation and Perception
- Descivered feature detectors, groups of neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different typesof visual images
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William James
- Methods, Approaches, and History
- Published The Principle of Psychology, psychology's first textbook
- Functionalism
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Lawrence Kohlberg
- Developmental Psychology
- Stage theory of moral development (preconventional, conventional, and postconventional)
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Elizabeth Loftus
- Cognition
- Demontrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory
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Alexandra Luria
- Cognition
- Tested eidetic memory
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Abraham Maslow
- Motivation and Elmotion, and Treatment of Psychological Disorders
- Humanistic psychologist
- Hierarchy of needs, self-actualization
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Stanley Milgram
- Social Psychology
- Obedience studies - participants thing they are shocking the learner
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Ivan Pavlov
- Learning
- Classical conditioning studies with the dogs and salivation
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Jean Piaget
- Developmental Psychology
- Stage theory of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations)
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Robert Rescorla
- Learning
- Pevised the pAvlovian contiguity model of classical conditioning
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Carl Rogers
- Treatment of Psychological Disorders and Personality
- Humanistic psychologist - person-centered therapy and unconditional postive regard
- Self theory of personality
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Stanley Schacter
- Motivation and Emotion
- Two-factor theory for emotion
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B. F. Skinner
- Learning
- Operant conditioning
- Invented Skinner box
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George Sperling
- Cognition
- Experiemented with the nature of sensory memory
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Edward Tolman
- Learning
- Experiemented with latent learning
- Found theat sometimes learning occures but is not immediatel evidenced
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