Last Name
Aronson
First Name
Elliott
School/Topic/Chapter
Social
Abramson
Lyn
Cognitive
Adler
Alfred
Allport
Gordon
Neo-Freudian/
Psychoanalytic
Trait Theorist
Aristotle
Philosopher
Key Info
Jigsaw, social influence and attitude
change, cognitive dissonance, research
methodology, and interpersonal attraction.
Cognitive connection to depression,
cognitive styles, motivational, cultural,
cognitive, and developmental influences on
info processing, eating disorders
Birth Order, Inferiority and Superiority
Complex,
Reduced behavioral characteristics in the
dictionary from 18,000 words to 42,
cardinal, secondary traits
Studied the soul; identified reason and
physical faculties as separate elements
Asch Line Study, Conformity
Social Learning, BoBo Doll, observational
learning, created the theory of reciprocal
determinism, a social-cognitive theory of
personality (internal mental events,
external environmental, and behavior all
interact reciprocally)
Self-efficacy
Taste Perception and Taste Disorders-super tasters, medium tasters, and non
tasters
Asch
Bandura
Solomon
Albert
Social psych
Behaviorist/Cognitive
Bartoshuk
Linda
Sensation and
Perception
Beck
Aaron
Cognitive
Cognitive Therapy, Beck Depression
Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory
Bem
Daryl
Social
Bem
Binet
Sandra
Alfred
Development/Gender
Intelligence
Bower
Gordon
Cognitive
Braid
Broadbent
James
Donald
Consciousness
Cognitive
Beliefs, attitudes, and ideologies, Psi (ESP)
Phenomenon, sexual orientations,
personality, self-perception
Gender Schema Theory; gender
Binet-Simon, and Stanford –Binet
Intelligence Tests- Developed the first
modern intelligence test, still the basis of
modern IQ tests Mood dependent retrieval and mood
congruent processing
Father of Hypnosis
Experimental psychologist; attention, info
processing, filter theory, selective
attention and short term memory,
cognitive psych and implicit learning
Last Name
Broca
Calkins
First Name
Paul
Mary
School/Topic/Chapter
Brain
History
consciousness
Key Info
Broca’s Area—production of speech
First Female President of the APA
Self Psychology
Cannon
Cartwright
Walter
Rosalyn
Motivation and Emotion
Consciousness
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion/
Dreams as connected to psychologically
traumatic events; depression, dreaming and
the brain, Sleep Researcher
Sleep apnea, parasomnias
Cattell
Raymond
Trait Theorist
Charcot
Jean Martin
Brain
Chomsky
Noam
Development/Language
Clark
Kenneth
Educational
psychologist
Social
Cover-Jones
Mary
Behaviorist
Dewey
John
Used factor analysis to determine surface
traits and 16 source traits
Considered by some to be the founder of
modern neurology, studied hysteria—
believed that hypnosis was a biological not
psychological state. Freud and Binet were
his students
Language—Innate language acquisition
device
Doll studies on racism ; testified in Brown
v. Board, prejudice , First African
American to earn a doctorate in psychology
at Columbia
Counter conditioning—Peter-- The “mother
of behavior therapy
Thinking and reflection in education
Ebbinghaus
Herman
Memory
Ekman
Ellis
Erikson
Paul
Albert
Erik
Emotion
Cognitive
Psychoanalytic
Eysenck
Hans
Trait Theorist
Fechner
Gustav
Experimental
psychologist
Festinger
Freud
Leon
Anna
Psychoanalytic
Freud
Sigmund
Psychoanalytic
Forgetting and Learning Curves, one of
first researchers on memory; nonsense
syllables
Facial Expressiveness, universal and innate
RET/REBT Therapy
Psychosocial Development—8 Stages, NeoFreudian
Coined the “Big 3” dimensions of
personality: Psychoticism, Extraversion,
Neuroticism
Sensation and perception, color perception,
JND—just noticeable difference
Cognitive Dissonance
child psychoanalysis, ego psychology
Father of Psychoanalysis, id, ego, se;
defense mechanisms, unconscious, dream
interpretation
Last Name
Fromm
First Name
Erich
School/Topic/Chapter
Psychoanalytic
Key Info
Blend of Freud and Marx and freedom
(biological determinism + socioeconomic
determinism + freedom)
Galton
Sir Francis
Evolutionary
eugenics, and differential psychology
Darwin’s cousin…evolutionary psych
Gardner
Gazzaniga
Gilligan
Howard
Michael
Carol
Intelligence
Brain
Development
Guilford
JP
Cognitive
Hall
G. Stanley
History
Development
Harlow
Harry
Development
Hebb
Donald
Hilgard
Holmes
Horney
Ernest
Thomas
Karen
Consciousness
Stress
Psychoanalytic
Hull
Clark
Behaviorism
Hume
Izard
David
Carroll
Philosopher
Emotion
James
William
Jung
Carl
Functionalism/Early
Theories
Psychoanalytic
Kinsey
Koffka
Alfred
Kurt
Gestalt
Multiple Intelligences
Split Brain Research
Moral Development—critiques Kohlberg—
males=black and white thinking;
females=relationship based decisions
Structure of Intellect, convergent v.
divergent thinking
First President of the APA, developmental
psychology; described adolescence as a
period of “sturm und drang”
Attachment; cloth/wire monkey
experiment (infant had stronger bond with
cloth monkey – need for affection creates
a stronger bond)
Nature v. nurture, brain damage and
intelligence, psychology of individual
differences
Hypnosis—the hidden observer
Holmes-Rahe--SRRS
Neo-Freudian, Groundbreaking work on
neuroticism; concept of womb envy,
criticism of penis envy, moving toward ,
away, and against
Reinforcement, drive-reduction, stimulus,
response, incentive motivation
Empiricism and perception
Emotional Development and facial
expressiveness , Found that facial
expressions of emotions are constant
across cultures
American Psychologist, First Psych
Textbook, Functionalism
Collective v personal unconscious, anima v
animus, archetypes, synchronicity
Sex researcher
Published an early textbook on Gestalt
psychology (which studied perception, and
how humans combine parts into wholes)
Last Name
Kohlberg
First Name
Lawrence
School/Topic/Chapter
Development
Kohler
Wolfgang
Gestalt
Kubler-Ross
Lashley
Elisabeth
Karl
Development
Brain/Memory
Lazarus
Richard
Emotion
Kurt
Lewin
Social
Locke
Loftus
Lorenz
John
Elizabeth
Konrad
Maslow
May
Abraham
Rollo
McClelland
David
Mesmer
Milgram
Franz
Stanley
Miller
Miller
Mischel
Alice
George
Walter
Murray
Henry
Myers
David
Olds
Pavlov
Perls
Piaget
James
Ivan
Frederick
Jean
Key Info
Moral Development—pre-conventional,
conventional, post-conventional (6
stages/3levels)
Published an early textbook on Gestalt
psychology (which studied perception, and
how humans combine parts into wholes)
Insight learning
Stages of Dying
localization of brain function and rats
Memory Trace/Engram
Cognitive Appraisal and Emotion
Leadership styles,
experiential learning and group dynamics
Philosopher
Tabula Rasa
Memory
Eyewitness id, memory problems,
Development
Imprinting and Critical Periods, innate
behaviors; evolutionary perspective
Humanist
Humanism, Hierarchy of Needs
Humanist/Existentialist Existentialism, the individual must bravely
face life as it is. He also talked about 4
stages of development: innocence,
rebellion, ordinary, and creative
Motivation
Achievement Motivation, developed scoring
system for TAT
Consciousness
Hypnosis
Social Psych
Milgram Obedience Study, social psych,
norms
Child abuse and the impact on society
Memory
Memory, short term memory 7 +/-2
Personality
Personality—behavior is based on
situational influences, did the Marshmallow
test, self/emotional regulation
Considered a trait
Developed TAT, psychogenic needs—power,
theorist
affiliation, and achievement
Social Psych
psychology and religion connection, positive
psych, hearing loss
Biological
Rewards system in the brain
Behaviorist
Classical Conditioning, Dogs,
Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Cognitive/Development Cognitive development, assimilation v
accommodation, sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete operations,
formal operations,
Last Name
Plato
First Name
School/Topic/Chapter
Philosopher
Plomin
Premack
Rahe
Robert
David
Richard
Biological
Rank
Otto
Psychoanalyst
Rescorla
Rogers
Robert
Carl
Behaviorism
Humanism
Rorschach
Schachter
Herman
Stanley
Personality Assessment
Emotion
Seligman
Martin
Seyle
Hans
Stress
Simon
Herbert
Cognitive
Skinner
B.F.
Behaviorist
Socrates
Solomon
Richards
Philosopher
Behaviorial
Spearman
Sperry
Sternberg
Charles
Roger
Robert
Intelligence
Biological
Intelligence
Love
Szasz
Thomas
Abnormal
Terman
Lewis
Intelligence
Thorndike
Edward
Behaviorist
Thurstone
Louis
Intelligence
Stress
Key Info
Described levels of consciousness in his
“Cave”
Twin Studies and Behavior Genetics
Primate Research, symbol use in chimps
Stress, SRRS, worked with prisoners of
war, hostages
Initially Freud’s favorite son, he later
broke with Freud and emphasized the
conscious mind and current experience
Cognitive connection to learning
Humanism, real vs. ideal, Client-Centered
Therapy
inkblots
Schacter-Singer Theory of emotion, Twofactor theory of emotion: generalized
arousal and appraisal
Learned helplessness; also known for his
research on optimism, biological
preparedness
Stress—GAS—alarm, resistance,
exhaustion
Organizational decision making, problem
solving, informational processing
Operant conditioning, operant chamber, air
crib
Opponent process theory, Perception ,
avoidance learning, punishment, drug
addiction—Rescorla and Seligman were his
students
G Factor—Intelligence
Nobel prize winner—split brain research
Triarchic theory of love and intelligence—
Love: (intimacy, passion, commitment)
intelligence: (creative, analytic and
practical)
“there is no such thing as mental illness”
It allows for labeling—“you have problems
with living”
Intelligence—Revised Binet-Simon (Mental
/ Chronological X 100)
Law of Effect—first to experimentally
study animal behavior…active behaviors are
influenced by their consequences
7 primary mental abilities; intelligence
Last Name
Titchener
First Name
Edward
Key Info
Structuralism—Wundt’s student
Edward
School/Topic/Chapter
Structuralist/Early
Theories
Behaviorism
Tolman
Von Helmholz
Herman
S/P
Vygotsky
Watson
Lev
John
Social/Development
Behaviorist
Weber
Wechsler
Weisel
Ernst
David
Tortsen
S/P
Intelligence/Cognitive
Biological
Wernicke
Wertheimer
Karl
Max
Wolpe
Wundt
Joseph
Wilhelm
Brain
Gestalt—Early
Theories
Behaviorist
Structuralism/Early
theories
Young-Helmholtz—Trichromatic Theory of
Color Vision
Social and cultural influences
Classic conditioning, Little Albert,
advertising
Psychophysics and JND
WAIS , WISC
Sensation and Perception—visual cortex,
visual processing, specialized cells
Understanding language
Gestalt
Yerkes
Robert
Zimbardo
Phillip
Social
Latent Learning and Cognitive Maps
Systematic Desensitization
First Psych Lab, introspection,
structuralism
Intelligence—chimps v humans, eugenics,
Yerkes-Dodson—arousal to performance
Stanford Prison study, Shyness,
Discovering Psych Series, Power of the
Situation, most recent--heroes