Psychology Important Names to Know Psychologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) Subfield History William James (1842-1910) History Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Learning Personality, clinical Alfred Binet (1857-1911) Edward Thorndike (1874-1949) John Watson (1878-1958) Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Intelligence Learning Learning Developmental Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941) Erik Erikson (1902-1994) Cognition (language) Developmental Carl Rogers (1902-1987) Therapy B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) Learning Harry Harlow (1905-1981) Developmental Best-known for: Established first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany (1879) Founder of structuralism Introspection Founder of functionalism Pioneering American psychologist o Published 1st psychology text Classical conditioning (dogs & saliva) Emphasis on unconscious motivations (sexual, aggressive) Founder of psychoanalysis (therapy) 4 stage psychosexual theory of personality development o Oral, anal, phallic, genital Dream interpretation, free association Defense mechanisms Creator of first intelligence test with Theodore Simon (1905) Law of Effect o Provided basis for behaviorism Founder of behaviorism Little Albert 4 stage theory of cognitive development o Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational Whorf’s hypothesis o Language influences cognition 8 stage theory of psychosocial development o Conflicts that yield certain personality characteristics, depending on resolution Humanistic psychology Client-centered (person-centered) therapy o Unconditional positive regard Operant conditioning Reinforcement theory o Skinner box (rats & lever pressing) Attachment styles among monkeys (fake mothers) Solomon Asch (1907-1996) Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) Stanley Schachter (1922-present) Albert Bandura (1925-present) Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987) Noam Chomsky (1928-present) Stanley Milgram (1933-1984) Phil Zimbardo (1933-present) Howard Gardner (1943-present) Elizabeth Loftus (1944-present) Social Motivation & emotion; Therapy Developmental Motivation & emotion Learning Conformity o Line Length study Humanistic psychologist Hierarchy of psychological needs o Self-actualization Attachment styles “Strange situation”: infants & strangers Two-factor theory of emotion Developmental Cognition (language) Social Social Intelligence Social learning theory/modeling Bobo doll study 3 stage theory of moral development preconventional, conventional, postconventional nativism: innate, universal grammar critical period for language development Obedience to authority o Deliver shocks to learner Stanford Prison Experiment o Importance of social roles Theory of multiple intelligences Cognition (memory) Unreliability of eyewitness testimony Memory as active construction