Famous Psychologists
The founder of psychoanalysis and possibly the most famous psychologist of the 20th century
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This is a child's inability to see information from another person's perspective
What is egocentric thinking?
This stage of moral development is reached by adulthood and is when the individual focuses on law and order and following the rules
What is stage 4: Law and Order?
This Identity Crisis is characterized by an active attempt at establishing essential identity characteristics, but the inability to come to any big decisions on these matters.
What is Identity Moratorium?
This is the specific form of dementia that destroys a person’s ability to think, remember, relate to others and care for themselves
What is Amnesia?
This psychologist researched primates and discovered the role of contact comfort in early primate development
Who is Harry Harlow?
This is a child's ability to acknowledge the existence of an object even when it is no longer in sight
What is a Object Permanence?
This is the stage of moral development when individuals believe the rules are fixed and absolute, and obey rules to avoid punishment
what is stage 1: obedience or punishment
This identity crisis is characterized by a disinterest in considering major life decisions and a complacency with being directionless
What is Identity Diffusion?
This is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' first stage of dying
What is denial?
This psychologist researched patterns of attachment between mother and child
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
This is the concept that a given quantity has not changed even though its appearance has changed
What is conservation?
In this stage of moral development, people sometimes disobey laws or work to change laws that do not work
This identity crisis is characterized by a consideration and commitment to many big identity issues, yet they are flexible and willing to adjust if need be
What is Identity Achievement?
This is the type of intelligence that peaks in our early 20s and assists in logic and problem solving
What is the fluid intelligence?
This psychologist performed research that led to the development of 5 identified stages of dying
Who is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross?
This is when a schema is adjusted so that the individual is able to just include new information into the same schema
What is Assimilation?
In this stage of moral development, children see that there is room for negotiation and base their decisions off "What's in it for me?"
What is Stage 2:Self-interest?
In this attachment pattern, children may appear mildly distressed upon the exit of the mother, however they will accept them back lovingly upon return
What is a secure attachment?
This type of intelligence peaks between ages 60-70 and is based of prior learning and experience
What is crystallized intelligence?
This researcher discovered that baby geese have an instinct to identify the first thing they see after hatching as their care taker
Who is Konrad Lorenz?
This is a conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world
What is a schema?
In this stage of moral development, people follow ethical principles that they apply equally to all people
stage 6: Universal Principles
In this identity crisis, the adolescent assumes the identity characteristics of their parents and becomes rigid and stubborn about these qualities
What is identity foreclosure?
This is the 3rd stage of the Kubler-Ross Stages of dying
What is Bargaining?