NOTABLE NAMES IN PSYCHOLOGY

• Adler, Alfred:

  • Individual psychology
  • Adlerian view
• Ainsworth, Mary:

  • Strange situation
  • Attachment styles
• Allport, Gordon:

  • Trait theory of personality
  • 4500 personality types
  • Cardinal, central, and secondary traits
• Aristotle:

  • Scientific method of analysis
• Asch, Solomon Eliot:

  • Asch experiment
  • Conformity
• Beck, Aaron:

  • Coined “hallucination”
  • Father of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
• Bernreuter, Robert G.:

  • Developed the Bernreuter Personality Inventory in 1931
  • Measuring four personality dimensions: neurotic tendency, self-sufficiency, introversion-extroversion, dominance-submission
• Binet, Alfred:

  • Invented the first modern intelligence test in 1905
• Binswanger, Ludwig:

  • Combined psychotherapy and existentialism
• Bleuler, Eugen:

  • Coined the term “schizophrenia”
• Bowlby, John:

  • Attachment theory
• Breur, Josef:

  • Cathartic method
  • Neurophysiology
• Bruner, Jerome:

  • Constructivist theory
  • Learners construct their own knowledge
• Buck, John:

  • Developed the House-Person-Tree test in 1948
• Cannon, Walter:

  • Cannon-Bard theory of emotion: emotional stimulus triggers both physiological and cognitive awareness
• Carlota, Annadaisy:

  • Panukat ng Pagkataong Pilipino (PPP)
• Cattell, James McKeen:

  • Interpersonal psychological structure
  • Legitimized psychology as a science
  • Coined the term “mental test”
  • 16 personality factors
• Charcot, J. M.:

  • Studied hysteria
  • Has connections with Freud
• Chomsky, Noam:

  • Father of linguistics
  • Theory of universal grammar
• Cowdery, K. M.:

  • First psychometrician to recognize the importance of cross-validation
• Darwin, Charles:

  • Theory of evolution by natural selection
• De Blas, Angel:

  • Thomistic Psychology in the Philippines
  • Established the first experimental psychology laboratory in 1938
• Del Pilar, Gregorio E. H.:

  • Big five model of personality
  • Mapa ng loob
• Dix, Dorothea:

  • Mental hygiene movement
• Ebbinghaus, Hermann:

  • Ebbinghaus illusion
  • Experiments on memory
• Ekman, Paul:

  • Relationship of emotions and facial expression
• Ellis, Albert:

  • Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT)
• Enriquez, Virgilio:

  • Father of Filipino psychology
• Esquirol, J. E. D.:

  • Mental retardation was a lifelong developmental phenomenon
  • Mental illness usually had a more abrupt onset in adulthood
• Exner, John:

  • Exner Scoring System: how to interpret the Rorschach Inkblot Test
• Eysenck, Hans:

  • Developed the concept of neuroticism
  • Argued it was a biological form of emotional instability
• Fowler, Orson:

  • Used a 7-point rating scale in phrenology
• Frankenburg, William:

  • Pioneered the first Development Screening Test (DST)
• Frankl, Victor:

  • Founder of logotherapy
• Freud, Anna:

  • Defense mechanism
  • Child psychoanalysis
• Freud, Sigmund:

  • Father of psychoanalysis
• Galen:

  • Second-century Greco-Roman physician
  • Possibly invented the crude form of rating scales
• Gall, Franz Joseph:

  • Argued that the brain is the organ of sentiments and faculties
  • Pioneered phrenology
• Galton, Sir Francis:

  • Father of psychometrics
  • Father of mental testing
• Gardner, Howard:

  • Theory of multiple intelligences