Important Psych People

• Wilhelm Wundt


  Made the first Psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. He was the founder of structuralism.
• William James


  He was the founder of functionalism and published the very first Psychology textbook.
• Ivan Pavlov


  Worked with the dog experiment for classical conditioning.
• Sigmund Freud


  He emphasized unconscious motivations and was the the founder of psychoanalysis. He liked to interpret dreams and studied defense mechanisms in people. Made the 4 stage psychosexual theory of personality development (Oral, anal, phallic, and genital).
• Alfred Binet


  The creator of the first intelligence test with Theodore Simon.
• Edward Throndike


  He created the law of effect that provided the basis of behaviorism.
• John Watson


  The founder of behaviorism that created the experiment with little Albert.
• Jean Piaget


  She developed the 4 stage theory of cognitive development (sesorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational).
• Benjamin Whorf


  He created Whorf's Hypothesis about language influences on cognition.
• Erik Erikson


  He created the 8 stage theory of psychiosocial development (conflicts that yield certain personality characteristics depending on the resolution).
• Carl Rogers


  Worked with humanistic psychology that involved client-centered therapy and unconditional positive regard.
• B.F. Skinner


  He worked with operant conditioning and created the reinforcement theory. He directed the experiment with the rat and and a lever in a box concerning rewards enforcement.
• Harry Harlow


  He worked with development and studied the attachment styles of monkeys to their mothers.
• Solomon Asch


  Studied conformity and performed the line length study.
• Abraham Maslow


  He was a humanistic psychologist who studied human psychological needs, motivation, emotion, and self-actualization.
• Mary Ainsworth and Stanley Schachter


  They studied development in attachment styles of infants. Created the two-factor theory of emotion and the "strange situation" between infants and strangers.
• Albert Bandura


  He studied learning and created the social-learning theory for modeling through his Bobo doll experiment.
• Lawrence Kohlberg


  He studied development and created the 3 stage theory of moral development (pre-conventional, conventional, and post conventional).
• Noam Chomsky


  He worked with cognition (language development) and studied nativism.
• Stanley Milgram


  He studied obedience to authority by performing an experiment that delivered shocks to a learner.
• Phil Zimbardo


  He is best known for his morally questionable experiment the Stanford Prison Experiment and focused on the importance of social roles.
• Howard Gardner


  Created the theory of multiple intelligences.
• Elizabeth Loftus


  She focused on the unreliability of an eyewitnesses testimony because she theorized that memory acts as an active construction.
• Wilhelm Wundt


  Made the first Psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. He was the founder of structuralism.

  
• William James


  He was the founder of functionalism and published the very first Psychology textbook.

  
• Ivan Pavlov


  Worked with the dog experiment for classical conditioning.

  
• Sigmund Freud


  He emphasized unconscious motivations and was the the founder of psychoanalysis. He liked to interpret dreams and studied defense mechanisms in people. Made the 4 stage psychosexual theory of personality development (Oral, anal, phallic, and genital).

  
• Alfred Binet


  The creator of the first intelligence test with Theodore Simon.

  
• Edward Throndike


  He created the law of effect that provided the basis of behaviorism.

  
• John Watson


  The founder of behaviorism that created the experiment with little Albert.

  
• Jean Piaget


  She developed the 4 stage theory of cognitive development (sesorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational).

  
• Benjamin Whorf


  He created Whorf's Hypothesis about language influences on cognition.

  
• Erik Erikson


  He created the 8 stage theory of psychiosocial development (conflicts that yield certain personality characteristics depending on the resolution).

  
• Carl Rogers


  Worked with humanistic psychology that involved client-centered therapy and unconditional positive regard.
• B.F. Skinner


  He worked with operant conditioning and created the reinforcement theory. He directed the experiment with the rat and and a lever in a box concerning rewards enforcement.

  
• Harry Harlow


  He worked with development and studied the attachment styles of monkeys to their mothers.

  
• Solomon Asch


  Studied conformity and performed the line length study.

  
• Abraham Maslow


  He was a humanistic psychologist who studied human psychological needs, motivation, emotion, and self-actualization.

  
• Mary Ainsworth and Stanley Schachter


  They studied development in attachment styles of infants. Created the two-factor theory of emotion and the "strange situation" between infants and strangers.

  
• Albert Bandura


  He studied learning and created the social-learning theory for modeling through his Bobo doll experiment.