Famous Psychologist

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Roger Sperry

American Psychologist. He discovered that the human brain is actually made up of two part

Mary Ainsworth

American child development psychologist. Developed a technique called the strange situation test. The test used to view the attachment between child and the caregiver

Carol Gilligan

American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist. Her work on moral development outlines how a woman's morality is influenced by relationships and how women form their moral and ethical foundation based on how their decisions will affect others

William James

American philosopher and psychologist. First to offer a course on psychology in the USA

William Glasser

American psychiatrist. He introduced the concepts of reality and choice therapy

David McClelland

American psychological theorist. Created the theory of motivational needs which states the three types of motivational needs are achievement motivation, authority/power motivation and affiliation motivation

G. Stanley Hall

American psychologist and educator. He focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory which suggested that embryonic stages of an organism resemble the stages of development of its ancestors

Martin Seligman

American psychologist and speaker. Father of modern positive psychology. Focused on what makes people feel happy and fulfilled

John Dewey

American psychologist and western philosopher. He argued that education is not only a way to gain knowledge but education provides important information about moral decision-making

Timothy Leary

American psychologist and writer. Experimented with psychedelic drugs and became known though them

Paul Ekman

American psychologist, first to study human emotions and their relations to facial expressions

John Watson

American psychologist. Created the path for behaviorism. He considers emotion to be another classical conditioning. Emphasized the importance of learning and environmental influences on development

Albert Ellis

American psychologist. Developed rational emotive behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy

Kay Redfield Jamison

American psychologist. Explored the link between bipolar and creativity

Gordon Allport

American psychologist. One of the first psychologist to study personality. His trait theory states that every human being possesses hundreds of traits that exist one of the three levels cardinal, central and secondary trait

Edward Thorndike

American psychologist. Working on animal behavior and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and it states that behavioral responses to specific stimuli are established through a process of trial and error

Abraham Maslow

American psychology professor.Tested Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority

Leon Festinger

American social psychologist. Developed the theory of cognitive dissonance that said people experience tension or discomfort when their beliefs do not match their behaviors

George Kelly

American therapist, psychologist and personality theorist. Major role in the development of clinical psychology. His work is part of the cognitive movement and he is often called the first cognitive theorists

Ken Wilber

American writer, public speaker and Neoplatonic. Came up with the basic framework of the integral theory which states all human knowledge and experience can be placed in a four-quadrant grid

Phil McGraw

Art psychologist, him and his father presented pathway seminars that provides training that allows people to create their own results

Paul Watzlawick

Austrian american psychologist and got a degree in analytical psychotherapy. Introduced the theory of schizophrenia

Viktor Frankl

Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. Founder of the Logotherapy and wrote a book about life in concentration camps

Konrad Lorenz

Austrian zoologist. He discovered imprinting and that is the social bond in infant animals

Søren Kierkegaard

Author and a philosopher. First existentialist philosopher and he dealt with how ones live single handedly as individuals

Robert Cialdini

Author of the book Influence: Science and Practice and Influence: Psychology of Persuasion. He researched why people comply with request

B. F. Skinner

Behaviorist, psychologist, author, inventor and social philosopher. Considered free will an illusion and human action dependent on consequences of previous actions and used the principle of reinforcement to strengthen behavior

Alfred Kinsey

Biologist, entomology, zoology professor and sexologist. He launched a sex studies program and created an institute for sex research

Ernest Jones

British psychoanalyst and neurologist. Influenced psychoanalytic research with his monograms

John Bowlby

British psychologist, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Believed that early childhood attachments played a critical role in the development and mental functioning. Developed the attachment theory

Anna Freud

Co-founder is psychoanalytic child psychology. Discovered that children often require different psychological treatment from adult and stated children develop through distinct developmental phases

Simon Baron-Cohen

Cognitive Neuroscientist. His theory related to autism says autism involved degrees of mind blindness

Wilhelm Wundt

Considered the father of experimental psychology and was a German psychologist, physician, physiologist and professor. Among the first to use a psychological lab and he used it to determine abnormal behaviors, mental disorders and studied brains

Edgar Schein

Created the theory of organizational development states that culture is made up of values and beliefs doesn't develop instantly

Robert Hare

Criminal psychologist. Created the Psychopathy checklist and it is used to predict the violent behavior and diagnose cases of psychopathy

Charles Spearman

English psychologist. He worked determining correlations among mental abilities and concluded that the prevalence of positive correlations must result from the general factor "g"

Rollo May

Extential psychologist. Developed the fact people develop through a number of stages in their life time

Carl Rogers

Father of client-centered therapy. He believed that humans have one basic motive and that's the tendency to self-actualize or to fulfill one's potential. He also added on to Abraham Maslow, that for a person to "grow", they need an environment that provides them with genuineness, acceptance, and empathy

Aaron Beck

Father of cognitive therapy, theories are used as treatments in clinical depression

Sabina Spielrein

First Russian psychoanalyst. Her book Concerning the Psychological Content of a Case of Schizophrenia was the first dissertation psychoanalytically oriented

Henri Wallon

French psychologist, philosopher, teacher and neuro-psychiatrist. According to his theories child development isn't a single step process. He also proposed the concept of social and environmental factors impacting on the development of children

Karen Horney

German psychoanalyst. Created the theory of neurotic needs which states that strategies used to cope with anxiety can be overused, causing them to take on the appearance of needs

Hans Eysenck

German psychologist. Developed the concept of neuroticism saying it was a biological form of emotional instability. He also argued that much personality is genetically determined

Hermann Ebbinghaus

German psychologist. Discovered the forgetting curve and spacing effect. Memory loss is exponential and spacing learning over a span of time help the learns retain and process the information

Fritz Perls

German psychotherapist and psychiatrist. Developed the Gestalt therapy that emphasizes the present moment and personal responsibility. His therapy is considered humanistic

Erich Fromm

German social psychologist, humanistic philosopher, democratic socialist, sociologist and psychoanalyst. Developed the concept that freedom was a main part of human nature and argued that biophilla was a sign of good psychological health

Kurt Lewin

German-American psychologist. He had a major impact on social psychology because of his Field theory which proposed that behavior is the result of the individual and the environment.

Hugo Münsterberg

German-American psychologist. He suggested that psychology could be used for variety of industrial applications

Albert Bandura

He developed the social learning theory which states behavior is guided by a combination of drives, cues, responses, and rewards

Elizabeth Loftus

Her research has demonstrated the malleability of memory and recovered that memories aren't always accurate and that the brain fills in gaps of information that is not known

Harry Harlow

His work demonstrated the absolute importance of developing safe and supportive emotional bonds with caregivers. Also suggested that closeness and contact that provides the comfort a child needs

Margaret Mahler

Hungarian psychoanalyst. Her theory on separation and individuation states that children exist in a symbiotic phase until they reach about six months of age

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Hungarian psychology professor. He created a concept of flow and introduced flow psychology which says people are happy when they are in a state. Contemporary psychologist

Daniel Kahneman

Israeli-American psychologist. With help from others he established a cognitive basis for common human errors. Notable for his work on the psychology of judgement, decision making and behavioral economics

Lawrence Kohlberg

Known fro his theory of moral development which expanded on Piaget's two stages. He argued that correct moral reasoning was the most significant factor in moral decision making

Alfred Adler

Medical Doctor, psychotherapist. Founder of Adlerian psychology, sometimes called individual psychology and his work pioneered attention to community life, prevention, and population health

Virginia Satir

Mother of family therapy and psychotherapist. Creator of the Virginia Satir change process model that is used to determined the impact of change

Alhazen

Muslim scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher. Said to be the first theoretical physicist

Sigmund Freud

Neuropsychology. He developed many theories and practices. With most of his studies based around dreams

Jerome Bruner

One of the people who discovered the constructivist theory. He believed learners creat new ideas and concepts off of prior knowledge. He made impacts on both psychology and education

Max Wertheimer

One of the three founders of Gestalt psychology and they believed that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

Solomon Asch

Pioneer of Gestalt psychology and a social psychologist. Known for his experiments called the Asch conformity experiment. They showed the effects of social pressure on conformity

David Buss

Professor of psychology. Evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection

Nathaniel Branden

Psycho-therapist. He proposed six important pillars of self-esteem consciously, self-acceptance, self-responsibility, self-assertiveness, living purposefully and personal integrity

Julia Kristeva

Psychoanalysis. Had important ideas on two components of language which were semiotic and symbolic. She believed emotion lie in stress and rhythm of speech

Melanie Klein

Psychoanalysis. Her play therapy techniques still used today and she emphasized the role of the mother and child

Jacques Lacan

Psychoanalyst. He redid Freud's theories and he developed the concept the mirror state which is where infants mimic their caregivers

Otto Rank

Psychoanalyst. He was the first to view therapy as an experience of learning and unlearning and believed relationships formed with patient allows them to think creatively

Alice Miller

Psychologist and author. An author of many books based on parental child abuse

Francis Galton

Psychologist, anthropologist, explorer, meteorologist, geographer and statistical. Known for his pioneering work on human intelligence and the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human difference. Also introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys

Herbert Simon

Psychologist, economist and sociologist. Five major contributions to management are concept, decision making, bounded rationality, administrative man and organizational communication

Steven Pinker

Psychologist, linguist, scientist and author. He pushed for the computational theory of the mind and evolutionary psychology

Philip Zimbardo

Psychologist, sociologist and anthropologist. Famous study with normal people under going depression and passivity because of not being able to express themselves

Alfred Binet

Psychologist. Invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet Simon scale

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Russian American psychologist. Best known for his ecological theory that involves family, mesosystem that consist of two types of interactions

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist. His work influenced the development of behaviorism. Hid discovery of reflexes influenced the behaviorist movement

Lev Vygotsky

Russian psychologist. Best known for his sociocultural theory he believed that social interaction played a main role in children's learning

R. D. Laing

Scottish psychiatrist who wrote a lot about mental illness especially in relation to psychosis

Stanley Milgram

Social psychologist. Found out the relationship between media consumption and anti-social behavior

Milton Erickson

Specialized in hypnosis and family therapy. He was said to have the ability to alter a person's neurotic habit, cultural backgrounds and favorite words

Jean Piaget

Swiss psychologist and philosopher. He found support for the idea that children think differently than adults. And his theory of cognitive development

Carl Gustav Jung

Swiss psychotherapist and psychiatrist. He founded analytical psychology and argued that empirical evidence was not the only way to arrive at psychological or scientific truths and that the soul plays a key role

Rensis Likert

Teacher and writer. Produced many books about management

Robert Sternberg

american psychologist and psychometrician. Founder of the triarchic theory of intelligence


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