GRE psychologist names

• Studied attachment styles in children
• "Strange Situation"

Studied the relationship between parental style and discipline

Studied attachment in adolescents

Suggested that children have an innate capacity for language acquisition

Eight stages of psychosocial development

• The four stages of psychosexual development in childhood 
• Oedipal conflict in psychosexual development

Believed development was due mostly to maturation

Suggested that males and females have different orientations towards morality

The founder of developmental psychology

Used monkeys and "surrogate mothers" to study the role of contact comfort in bond formation

Conducted landmark longitudinal study to examine developmental trajectories of children's temperament

Studied moral development using moral dilemmas

• Suggested that infants are born a blank slate and have no predetermined tendencies 
• They are able to be "written on by experience"

Imprinting on birds

Four stages of cognitive development

Suggested development could unfold without help from society

Longitudinal study on gifted children

Studied genetic basis of maze-running skills in rats

• Studied cognitive development 
• Stressed the importance of the proximal zone

• Psychodynamic theorist
• Best known for the theory of inferiority complex

• Known for the concept of functional autonomy
• Distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality

• Studied social learning theory 
• Bobo doll experiment

• Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions
• Also studied androgyny

Used factor analysis to study personality

• Known for work on approach-avoidance conflict
• Studied psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework