AP Psychologists

Historical

100

Father of Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt 

200

Studied under Wundt, credited with helping to found structuralism

Edward Titchner

300

Helped to found structuralism and founded the first major psychology lab in the United States.

William James

400

Following a railroad construction accident, the physical trauma this this man's brain has been used a case study to connect the self psychically tot he brain.

Phineas Gage

500

First women to receive a PhD in Psychology.  Second female president of the APA

Margaret Washburn

Behaviorists

100

Accidentally began research on classical conditioning when dogs began salivating tot eh sound of a bell used to signify meal time. 

Ivan Pavlov

200

Through extensive research with pigeons, helped design a series of schedules using rewards and punishments that make up operant conditioning. 

B.F. Skinner

300

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Researched the 'facial feedback affect'

James Laird

400

The father of behaviorism.

Also conducted the "Baby Albert" experiment

John Watson

500

Used taste aversion to research biological dispositions to conditioning

(two names)

John Garcia & Robert Koelling

Cognitive Psychologists

100

Studied misinformation effect- especially with Eyewitness testimony

Elizabeth Loftus

200

Developed eight distinct intelligence- especially noted for for including non- academic skills.

Howard Gardner

300

Found that storage decay follows a curve that swiftly declines, but levels off over time.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

400

Developed the theory of 'linguistic determinism'

Benjamin Lee Whorf

500

On top of studying universal grammar development, this psychologist coined the term, 'language acquisition device'

Noam Chomsky

Developmental Psychologists

100

Studied cognitive development of children

Jean Piaget

200

Studied the development of personality over an individual's lifetime. 

Erik Erikson

300

Best known for criticizing Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development for being to male & western centric

Carol Gilligan

400

Identified the zone of proximal development

Lev Vygotsky

500

Designed the 'Strange situation' to study attachment

Mary Ainsworth

Sensation and Perception

100

Studied the percent difference necessary for an individual to perceive a difference between two similar stimuli. 

Ernst Weber

200

Suggested that the retina contains three types of cones for trichromatic color vision

(two names)

Hermann von Helmholtz & Thomas Young

300

Studied the concept of absolute thresholds

Gustav Fechner

400

Studied depth perception in infants using the 'visual cliff' experiment

Eleanor Gibson

500

Used cats to study the the implications of 'feature detectors'.

David Hubel & Torsten Wiesel