Fabulous 15: AP Psychology

Solomon Asch

Social Psychology- conformity and impression formation experiments

Erik Erikson

Neo-Freudian who developed the psychosocial stages (Trust vs mistrust, Initiative vs. guilt, etc.)

Stanley Milgram

Obedience Studies: When told to do something, decidedly so even if it were wrong, subject would comply

Lawrence Kohlberg

Stage Theory of Moral Development (Preconventional, Conventional, PostConventional)

Jean Piaget

Developmental: Stage Theory of Cognitive Development (Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operations, Formal Operations).

Harry Harlow

Attachment study with infant monkeys

Albert Bandura

Determined Observational learning (bobo dolls)--Modeling, Self-Efficacy and therefore Social Learning Theory/Model

Willhelm Wundt

Established the first psych lab in germany and developed the theory of Structuralism (The mind operates by combining subjective emotions and objective sensations)

Abraham Manslow

Hierarchy of needs, self-actualization

John Watson

Learning: Father of Behaviorism, baby Albert Experiment in which he was able to classically condition fear

B.F Skinner

Learning: Operant Conditioning, reinforcement; invented Skinner Box

Ivan Pavlov

Learning: Operant Conditioning, well known for his dog/saliva research and conditioned/unconditioned stimuli

Sigmund Freud

Psychosexual stage theory of Personality, stressed importance of the unconscious mind and repressed memories, sexual drive, psychoanalysis, and theory of dreaming

Albert Ellis

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Directly confront dysfunctional phobias of their clients

Carl Rogers

Treatment and Personality: Client-centered Therapy/ Humanistic treatment technique of constant positive vibes