Learning
Memory & Cognition
Social Psychology
Development
Misc.
100

This physiologist discovered classical conditioning through experiments with dogs.

Ivan Pavlov

100

These two researchers proposed the multi-store memory model of sensory, short-term, and long-term memory.

Richard Atkinson & Richard Shiffrin

100

This personality theorist proposed the psychodynamic theory involving the id, ego, and superego.

Sigmund Freud


100

This psychologist developed the famous intelligence quotient test.

Alfred Binet

100

This humanistic psychologist proposed a hierarchy of needs culminating in self-actualization.

Abraham Maslow

200

This social-cognitive theorist proposed reciprocal determinism and emphasized self-efficacy.

Albert Bandura

200

This psychologist developed the working memory model including the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad.

Alan Baddeley

200

This psychologist conducted obedience experiments involving authority and electric shocks.

Stanley Milgram

200

This theorist developed the "strange experiment" to better understand theories of attachment. 

Mary Ainsworth

200

This linguist proposed the concept of a Language Acquisition Device (LAD).

Noam Chomsky

300

This theorist developed drive-reduction theory of motivation.

Clark Hull

300

This memory researcher is known for the forgetting curve.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

300

This researcher demonstrated conformity through line-judgment experiments.

Solomon Asch

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY:

Who developed stages for cognitive development? What are the stages?

Jean Piaget

300

This psychologist emphasized unconditional positive regard and client-centered therapy.

Carl Rogers

400

This psychologist developed the Yerkes-Dodson law:

Robert Yerkes & John Dodson

400

This intelligence theorist proposed the g factor.

Charles Spearman

400

This psychologist proposed cognitive dissonance theory.

Leon Festinger

400

This psychologist focused on moral development by identifying stages during which humans develop increasingly more complex moral worldviews. 

Lawrence Kohlberg

400

This theory proposes that physiological arousal comes first, and then the emotion is interpreted cognitively.

Schachter-Singer Theory

500
Yerkes Dodson Law explains what?

Optimal arousal.

500

These two researchers proposed levels of processing theory, arguing that deeper semantic processing improves memory.

Fergus Craik & Robert Lockhart

500

This modern psychologist famously conducted the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment.

Philip Zimbardo

500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: 

This theorist argues that developed is shaped by 8 stages of crises that need resolved. Who was it, & what are 4/8 stages?

Erik Erikson

trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs shame and doubt, initiative vs guilt, industry vs inferiority, identity vs role confusion, intimacy vs isolation, generativity vs stagnation, integrity vs despair


500

This modern psychology argues that language is an evolved instinct rather than a purely cultural invention and has written extensively on how the human mind works

Steven Pinker