Cognitive
Known for developing cognitive therapy.
Aaron Beck
Research on piglet’s two stages, identifying six stages of moral development.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Best known for his hierarchy of needs, which said that basic physical needs must be met before people can realize their full potential.
Abraham Maslow.
He was known for develop the theory of operant conditioning
BF Skinner
The intelligence test that he developed became one of the most widely used psychological assessments in the world.
Louis Terman
Developed a social learning theory and the concept of self-efficacy.
(Quick hint: He performed the Bobo doll experiment.)
Albert Bandura.
Expanded psychoanalytic theory by exploring development throughout life, including events of childhood, adulthood, and old age.
Erik Erikson
Founder of Individual Psychology, Neo-Freudian. Also developed Adlerian Psychology.
Alfred Adler
Pioneered the development of rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Albert Ellis.
Known for discovering the seats of articulate speech in the left frontal region of the brain.
Paul Broca
He recognized that the human mind can be understood using an information-processing model.
Research on the stage theory of child cognitive development, detailed observation studies of cognition in children, and a series of test to reveal different cognitive abilities.
Jean Piaget.
He emphasized the conscious and the present, and. Believed that personality can only be understood from our own view points and subjective experiences.
Carl Rogers
Discovered that newly hatched goslings follow the first moving object they see, consequently, imprinting occurs when an animal forms an attachment to the first thing it sees upon hatching.
Konrad Lorenz
Discovered that learning can occur when we gain insight into an entire situation, as opposed to focusing only on an individual part.
Wolfgang Kohler
Developed the triarchic theory of intelligence and did reseach related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love, hate, and leadership.
Robert Sterberg
Identification of two central dimensions of parent’s behavior
Diana Baumrin
Pioneer and advocate of humane methods in the treatment of the mentally ill, and development of psychological therapy "moral treatment."
Philippe Pinel
Known for his Theory of Multiple Intelligences, which consists of eight intelligences to varying degrees and an individual's learning style is unrelated to the areas in which they are most intelligent.
Howard Gardner
His learning theory led to the development of operant conditioning within behaviorism.
Edward Thorndike
She was known for being one of the nation’s leading experts on memory.
Elizabeth Loftus
She developed “strange situation” experiment, in reaction to Bowlby’s initial finding that infants from an emotional bond to its caregiver.
Mary Ainsworth
Proposed and developed the concepts of extraverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and collective unconscious.
Carl Jung
He develops the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
Known for pioneer of social psychology and gestalt psychology.
Solomon Asch