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Intro Psych Important People
A.K.A. Mostly Dead White Guys
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
10/13/2014

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Rene Descartes
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distinction between the spiritual mind and physical body
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Charles Darwin
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(1831) On the Origins of Species; natural selection
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Wilhelm Wundt
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first psychologist; first to consider scientifically studying the mind and body; introspection; Edward Bradford Titchener; father of structuralism;
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William James
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functionalism
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John B. Waston & Rosalie Rayner
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Little Albert
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B.F. Skinner
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law of effect; reinforcer; positive/negative reinforcement; operant box; reinforcement contingencies; continuous reinforcement; shaping; intermittent reinforcement; extinction (in operant conditioning)
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Sigmund Freud
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whole-person psychology; psychodynamic psychology; psychoanalysis; humanisitic psychology; trait and temperment psychology
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Wilder Penfield
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probed brain with pen-shaped electric probe; brain's surface has distintive functions
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Heinrich Kluver & Paul Bucy
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surgically snipped the connection to the amygdala of the brain in rhesus monkeys
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Franz Joseph Gall
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the brain also had regions devoted to such traits as hope, spirituality, friendship, etc.; localization of functions
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Paul Broca
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inability to form speech, though one may still understand it; in contrasts to Wernicke's area
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Roger Sperry & Micheal Gazzaniga
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split-brain patients could identify objects in one hand, but not the other; lack of facial recognition in one eye, but not the other
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Ivan Pavlov
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dogs & salivia; classical conditioning; neutral stimulus + unconditional stimulus -> unconditioned response; conditioned stimulus (neutral stimulus) -> conditioned response (unconditioned response)
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John Garcia & Robert Koelling
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naturally sensitive to food aversion; organism have an inborn preparedness to associate certain stimuli with certain consquences
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David Penmark
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a more preferred activity can be used to reinforced a less preferred one
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Wolfgang Kohler
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Sultan; insight learning
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Edward Tolman
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cognitive map; animals learn concepts
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Albert Bandura
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learning by observation of others experiencing reward/punishment; BoBo; observation/social learning
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Richard Atkinson & Richard Shiffrin
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developed the three stage model of memory
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University of Leipzig (place)
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established in 1879, world's first psychology laboratory by Wundt
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George Sperling
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the capacity of sensory image can hold 12 or more items, though no more than a few seconds
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George Miller
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working memory can hold 7+/-2
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Allen Baddeley
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the central executive, the phonological loop, the sketchpad, episodic buffer
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Fergus Craik & Robert Lockhart
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level-of-processing-theory (1972)
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Craik & Tulving (1975)
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words with meaning analyzed where better remembered
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Daniel Shacter
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(1992) implicit/explicit memory; seven sins
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Skotko (2004)
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H.M. still had implicit memory
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Robert Bjork
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desireable difficulties; more interaction with the material in different ways
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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forgetting curve (1908/1973)
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Elizabeth Loftus & John Palmer
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suggestibilty with car crashes
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Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky
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anchoring bias
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Barry Schwartz
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tryanny of choice
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Robert Weisberg
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extensive knowledge + high motivation + certain personality characteristics = genius
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Howard Gardner
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aptitude; long ass list of intelligences
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Robert Sternburg
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tri-intelligences: practical, creative, analytic
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Alfred Binet & Theodore Simons
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first IQ test for french kids; MA/CA * 100
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Lewis Terman
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Standford-Binet test; introduces IQ concept to US (originally by Willian Stern)
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James Flynn
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gradual increase in IQ
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David Wechsler
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WAIS, WISC, WPPSI
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John Berry
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Native American intel concept
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Robert Rosenthal & Lenore Jacobson
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self fulfiling prophecy teachers
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Henry Goddard
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intel was hereditary; exclude immigrant groups
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Sandra Scarr & Richard Weinberg
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adopted children
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Richard Hernstein & Charles Murray
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bell curve racists
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