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.