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The psychologist who expanded Structuralism
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Edward B. Titchener
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German physiologist who founded psychology as a formal science; opened first psychology research laboratory in 1879
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Wilhelm Wundt
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The psychologist who expanded Structuralism
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German physiologist who founded psychology as a formal science; opened first psychology research laboratory in 1879
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The first American psychologist who created Functionalism
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A behaviorism psychologist who studied learning through rewards and punishments using pigeons and rats
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American psychologist who established the first psychology research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological Association
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First female to be awarded a PhD in psychology
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American psychologist who conducted research on memory, personality, and dreams; first woman president of the American Psychological Association
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Watson's assistant in Little Albert experiment (small child develops fear of rats)
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Psychologist who created the concept of absolute thresholds
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Creator of Weber's Law
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The second of two psychologists who contributed to the concept of Trichromatic Theory for sight
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The first of two psychologists who contributed to the concept of Trichromatic Theory for sight
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Proposed Opponent-Process theory for color vision
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Psychologists who studied the development of depth perception in infants.
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Creators of the Gate-Control Theory
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Psychologist famous for work in observational or social learning including the famous Bobo doll experiment
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Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by training pigeons and rats
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Psychologist who theorized about how a reinforcer's value could be determined and created the Premack Principle
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Psychologists who studied mice in mazes in order to learn about latent learning and cognitive maps
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Psychologist who created the Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence
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Scientist who discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
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Psychologists who performed the Little Albert Experiment to study Classical Conditioning
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Psychologists who
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Psychologist who developed terms: internal/external locus of control
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Psychologist who conducted experiments with dogs that led to the concept of "learned helplessness"
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Psychologist who did an experiment with a chimpanzee to show that other animals have insight
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came up with the formula for mental age and created an intelligence test used for French school children
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creator of "g-factor", or general intelligence, concept
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Developed WAIS and WISC (IQ tests)
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devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, linguistic, musical, interpersonal, naturalistic
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Set a record for long-term follow-up; had given intelligence tests to nearly every child in Scotland that had been born in 1921; the results were discovered 65 years later and the tests readministered to the same people.
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Psychologists who proposed an emotional intelligence - the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
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Psychologist who created the 10 year rule for intelligence
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Psychologist who challenged Spearman and proposed that intelligence consisted of 7 different primary mental abilities
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professor at Stanford who revised the Binet test for Americans. The test then became the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. He is also known for his longitudinal research on gifted kids.
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Psychologist who argues that general intelligence evolved as a form of intelligence that helps people solve novel problems
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Psychologist who observed the self-fulfilling stereotype threat when administering math tests to men and women and black and white teens
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Psychologist focused on language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition, humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
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Psychologist focused on intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving, practical, and creative)
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Psychologist who determined that confirmation bias shows that "ordinary people will evade facts to defend themselves against new information on issues".
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psychologists who researched heuristics and their effects on decision making
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Psychologist who studied language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think
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coined the phrase "bilingual advantage" showing bilingual children are better able to tune out irrelevant information
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Psychologist who proposed the concept of a working memory that underlies human thought processes
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Psychologist who proposed a model to explain our memory forming processSensory=>Short Term=>Long Term
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Psychologist associated with early research into the capacity of sensory memory.
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Psychologist who studied the forgetting curve
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Psychologist who developed the testing effect where retrieving information is better than rereading the information
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the first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well
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Psychologists who studied levels of processing
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Psychologists who studied how actors use semantic meaning to remember lines
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psychologist; found that short term memory has the capacity of about 7 (plus or minus 2) items
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Psychologist who found that memory is not stored in just one place of the brain. Tested on rats.
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Psychologists who discovered the neural basis of learning, long-term potentiation, by observing changes in the sending neurons of a simple animal, the California sea slug, Aplysia.
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Psychologist who showed forgetting is more than just the passage of time by comparing retention after being awake versus sleeping
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Psychologist whose research on memory construction and the misinformation effect created doubts about the accuracy of eye-witness testimony
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Psychologists who demonstrated source amnesia w preschoolers (story about mr. Science)
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Psychologist who researched how false memories are created
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Psychologist whose studies of children's memories have sensitized them to children's suggestibility
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Psychologist who created 7 sins of memory
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a method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful in some way
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moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely different, not better or worse
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Psychologist who researched nonverbal infant memory, by allowing infants to control a mobile, found infants can learn at an early age
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researcher who developed a model of parenting styles that included authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive
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Psychologist who theorized the terminally ill progress through sequence of: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
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Psychologist known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development
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Psychologist who studied attachment in monkeys with artificial mothers
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Psychologist known for his four stage theory of cognitive development
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Theorist who thinks that morality is rooted in "moral intuitions" or quick, gut feelings that guide moral reasoning
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Researcher who studied the brain and it's responses while a person contemplated moral dilemmas
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Psychologist created a situation in which 2-3 year olds were shown a small toy hidden within a scale model of a room in order to study symbolic thinking
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researcher who focused on critical attachment periods in baby birds, a concept he called imprinting
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Psychologist famous for his theory of moral development in children; made use of moral dilemmas in assessment
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Psychologist who focused on child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research
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Psychologists who found raising rats in isolation versus in a communal playground influenced the growth of the cerebral cortex
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Psychologist who compared effects of maternal separation, devised patterns of attachment; "The Strange Situation": observation of parent/child attachment
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Researcher who found that cell clusters in the hypothalamus of homosexuals were larger than those of heterosexuals
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Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization"
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Psychologist who created the concept of Reciprocal Determinism
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Neo-Freudian; introduced concept of "inferiority complex" and social motivations in the unconscious
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regarded by some as the father of the scientific study of human sexuality. Published a series of reports which described common sexual behaviors in the US
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Psychologists who performed an experiment that studied the effects of inflated self-esteem and what happens when that self-esteem is criticized
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neo-Freudian who created concept of "collective unconscious" and archetypes
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Humanism psychologist; self-concept and unconditional positive regard drive personality
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the father of the trait perspective of personality
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trait theorists
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Psychologist who researched a recurring response to stress that he called the general adaptation syndrome
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Psychologist who developed one of the first projective tests, the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story, the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary
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Psychologists who developed the Terror Management Theory
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Psychologist who proposed that the amygdala serves as a "hub" of rapid emotional response, especially to sensory input involving threat
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neo-Freudian,
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Psychologists who studied Type A and Type B personality types
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creators of the "Big Five" model of personality traits
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the psychologist who identified 16 source traits that he believed gives rise to all human traits
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American psychologist who concluded that some emotional responses do not require conscious thought
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Psychologists who created the Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal Theory
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Psychologist who studied emotion and thought that cognition is not necessary for emotion, and that if it is involved, it happens after the emotion
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Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
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Psychologist who demonstrated spotlight effect by having students wear Barry Manilow t-shirts before entering a room with other students
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Psychologists who created the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
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Psychologists who theorized that we feel emotion because of biological changes caused by stress
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researchers who described the human sexual response cycle and sought to define and treat sexual disorders based on that model
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pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
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Developed "rational emotive behavior therapy" (REBT)
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A social psychologist that did a study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder, the label, even when behavior indicates otherwise, is hard to overcome in a mental health setting
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Activist who helped improve conditions of mental patients in the USA
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Used classical conditioning theory in psychotherapy and introduced Systematic Desensitization and concepts of reciprocal inhibition which he applied to reduce anxiety. In treatment he paired relaxation with an anxiety -provoking stimulus until the stimulus no longer produced anxiety.
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"mother of behavior therapy"; used classical conditioning to help "Peter" overcome fear of rabbits
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French physician who inspired the use of actives and occupations and moral treatment
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Psychologists who studied posttraumatic growth; positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances in life crises
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Psychologist who created the idea of therapeutic life-style change
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Psychologist who studied rhesus monkeys to see if anxiety is learned by observation; a genetic predisposition allowed the observational learning of a fear of snakes, not flowers
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cognitivist that came up with the Rumination Theory--depressed individuals who ruminate in their depression are prone to worse depression than those who distract themselves from it
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social psychologist, worked with John Darley, focused on social loafing and diffusion of responsibility
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Worked with Bibb Latane to decipher why people performed better when being watched by others (ex: emergencies)
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Psychologist who studied cognitive dissonance
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a founder of social psychology, studied social norms, conducted Robber's Cave experiment
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Psychologist who studied social facilitation and social impairment.
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Social Psychologist; Did the "Stanford Prison Study": the importance of role-playing
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Psychologist who conducted famous conformity experiment that required subjects to match lines.
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Psychologists who demonstrated the fundamental attribution error where people, analyzing others' behavior, tend to underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the impact of personal disposition
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Psychologist who studied obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions