AP Psychology Names

Researcher who focused on critical attachment periods in baby birds, a concept he called imprinting

American Psychologist and trait theorist who researched the idea that individual personalities are unique.

English Psychologist who researched whether some traits predicted others; he proposed 16 key personality dimensions or factors; personality

Social psychologist who researched the circumstances under which people conform

Stresses the importance of imitation in learning; proposed social-learning theory

Pioneer in developmental psychology; introduced a stage theory of cognitive development help understand the way a child thinks

Created a 3 stage theory of moral development

Linguist who argues that childrem have a predisposition to learn language, braines hardwired to pick up grammer

Psychologist who argued that children learn language through associations, imitation, and reinforcement

German philosopher who conducted pioneering memory studies

Created an 8-stage theory of social development

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First American psychologist and author of the first psychology textbook

Founder of psychoanalysis, a controversial theory about the workings of the unconscious mind

Russian physiologist and learning theorist famous for the discovery of classical conditioning, in which learning occurs through association.

Case study done after a rod went completely through his brain.

Did the experiment with the monkey to see how important attachment and body contact was; (bare wire with bottle, & cloth mother w/ no bottle

Pioneering hypnosis researcher and an advocate of the divided consciousness theory of hypnosis

Neo-Freudian who thought social tensions were more importnat than sexual tenisons in the development of personality

Neo-Freudian who believed that humans share a collective unconscious.

Neo-Freudian who found psychoanalysis negatively biased toward women cultural variables are the foundation of personality developme

German Psychologist who contributed to the Gesalt Psychology by doing an experiment on chimpanzees to test their insight abilities

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Found that in humans, a difference has been found between the brains of heterosexuals and homosexuals.