Theorists in Psychology

Psychologist Name Wilhelm Wundt William James Max Wertheimer Rene Descartes B.F. Skinner John B. Watson Ivan Pavlov Fritsch and Hitzig Perspective Psychoanalytical Functionalism Gestalt Biological Behavioral Behavioral Behavioral Neurobiological Contribution Levels of Consciousness Learned habits, taught religion Optical illusions, a founder of Gestalt psychology Dualism of body and mind, Reflex theory Operant conditioning Stimuli and response, established school of Behaviorism Classical conditioning with dogs Electrical current of the brain and discovery of the motor cortex Sight learning, one founder of Gestalt psychology Social Darwinism survival of the fittest Discussed how white rats are common in experiments, nonreinforcement theory Studied the basis of memory storage in neurons Tested patients with epilepsy for the region of their brain where the damage occurred, decided each region of the brain has a function. Tested split brained patients, lateralization of brain

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Buzz Words Experimental psychology Adaptation, religion, function Necker Cube, Gestalt Body, mind, relflex Skinners box, response, trained Reward, punishment, reinforcement, extinction Dogs, bells, classical conditioning Motor cortex, electricity aha moment, Gestalt, holistic Natural selection, survival of the fittest Bias, rats, nonreinforcement, one trial theory, contiguity learning Neurons, storage Electric stimulation, epilepsy, brain regions

Wolfgang Kohler Charles Darwin Edwin R. Guthrie

Gestalt Evolutionary Behavioral

Eric Kandel Wilder Penfield

Neurobiological Neurobiological

Roger Sperry

Neurobiological

Hemispheres, split brained, corpus callosum

Kulver and Bucy

Behavioral

Franz Joseph Gall Ernst Weber

Neurobiological Cognitive

Gustav Fechner Muller and Lyer

Cognitive Cognitive

Melzack and Walls Hermann Helmholtz Leon Festinger Gestalt Richard Gregory Gordon Bower Paul Broca

Neurobiological Developmental Psychoanalytical Cognitive/Gestalt Cognitive Developmental Neurobiological

Sigmund Freud Eugene Aserinsky

Psychoanalytical Neurobiological

function Tested for changes in behavior of monkeys, brought Gestalt psychology to the US. Pioneered the study of localization of brain functions Webers Law of Just Noticeable Difference, founder of experimental psychology Fechners Law of Just Noticeable Difference Created the MullerLyer Illusion with two lines of the same length with arrows turned in and out. Created the Gate Control Theory of Pain Information is interpreted based on prior knowledge Theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory People focused on making perceptual wholes out of stimuli Studied circular culture, he didnt use straight lines Used 3D goggles to test depth perception in infants Studied how the two hemispheres of the brain specialize in different things Theories about the unconscious mind, its needs, and repression Discovered REM sleep, pioneer in

Rhesus monkey, amygdala phrenology JND, sensory stimulus

JND, sensory stimulus Arrows, lines, same length, optical illusion

phantom pain, gate theory, pain, drugs, stimuli Expectations, learned Dissonance, social psychology Holistic, perceptual whole, parts, fill-inthe-blanks Circular culture, circles, lines, optical illusions 3D, depth, infants Brocas area, hemispheres, functions Id, ego, sex, superego, unconscious needs, repression Sleep, REM, dreams

Abram Maslow Metzler and Shepard Stephen Kosslyn Emily Rosa

Developmental Cognitive

Cognitive She was in fourth grade, Im not sure she had a decided perspective. Humanistic Behavioral

Carl Rogers Mary Cover Jones

Garcia and Koelling

Behavioral

Edward Thorndike

Behavioral

David Premack

Behavioral

Edward Tolman Albert Bandura Robert Rescorla Leon Kamin

Behavioral Behavioral Behavioral Behavioral

sleep psychology Worked to describe the hierarchies of needs People rotate items mentally in order to compare them to other items People use their minds to zoom in on details Disproved the practice of Therapeutic Touch (TT) with science project Founder of humanistic psychology mother of behavior therapy, studied unconditioning a subject Studied taste aversion in rats to prove biological predisposition in classical conditioning Worked with animal behavior and the learning process. Created a theory of learning Premacks principle of reinforcement, demonstrated that response is relative and not absolute. Formulated latent learning Bobo doll experiment, social learning theory, self-efficacy theory Created the RescorlaWagner model of classical conditioning Theorized that if two

Human needs, self actualization Rotation, mental images, spatial processing Zoom, details, mental imagery 4th grade, TT, Therapeutic Touch, young Humanistic Behavior therapy

Food aversion, rats, classical conditioning,. Thorndikes learning theory, learning

Premack Principle, reinforcement, relativity Latent learning Bobo doll, social learning Classical conditioning, expectations, reality the blocking effect,

Jerome Kagen

Developmental

stimuli are presented simultaneously and one of them is preassosciated with the desired outcome, the subject cannot be conditioned. Focused on temperament and emotions starting from infancy

blocked, simultaneous

Infant, emotions, temperament.