AP Psych Chapter 10 Notable People
Carl Jung
proposed that the unconscious consists of two different parts: the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious
Alfred Adler
Psychodynamic theorist
Gordon Alport
Believed that a full understanding of one's personality is impossible. Cardinal dispositions , central dispositions, and secondary dispositions.
Nancy Chodorow
Believed that men were superior to women.
B.F. Skinner
Believed that personality was determined by the environment.
Hans Eyesenck
Developed extroversion and introversion.
Robert McCrae
Developed the Big Five along with Paul Costa .
Paul Costa
Developed the Big Five along with Robert McCrae.
Karen Horney
Feminist; she believed that if a women was envious of a man, it would be because of all the social advantages a man has. Developed the concept of womb envy.
Julian Rotter
Locus control; who/what determines our fate, the environment or us.
George Kelly
Personal-Construct Theory. He believed that people in attempt to understand the world, develop their own, individual systems of personal constructs. Fair-unfair, smart-dumb, and exciting-dull.
William Sheldon
Somatotype theory. He believed that certain body type correlated to different personalities. Endomorph (fat), mesomorph (muscular), and ectomorph (thin).
Sigmund Freud
believed that one's personality was essentially set in early childhood. He developed the psychosexual stage theory. Defense mechanisms
Carl Rogers
believed that people try to reach their full potential along with Abraham Maslow.
Abraham Maslow
believed that people try to reach their full potential along with Carl Rogers.
Hippocrates
believed that the personality was determined by four humors (fluids) in the body. Blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
Ramoynd Cattell
developed the 16 PF (personality factor) test to measure what he believed were the 16 basic traits present in all people, albeit to different degrees.
Albert Bandura
suggested that personality is created by an interaction between the person (traits), the environment, and the person's behavior. Reciprocal Determination.