AP Psych People

A. L. Washburn

Swallowed a balloon; measured stomach contractions and hunger pangs

Abraham Maslow

Humanist; Hierarchy of Needs

Alfred Kinsey

Survey about sexual behavior

Ancel Keys

Semi-starvation study

Cannon-Bard

Emotion = Simultaneous physiological arousal and emotional experience

Carl Wernicke

Discovered brain area associated with verbal comprehension, aphasia

Carol Gilligan

Criticized Kohlberg for anti-female morality stages

Diana Baumrind

3 parenting styles(authoritarian, authoritative, permissive)

Elizabeth Loftus

Eyewitness testimony, misinformation effect

Erik Erikson

8 stages of psychosocial development

Harry Harlow

Cloth mom monkeys, contact comfort for attachment

Herman Ebbinghaus

Remembering curve(retention curve), rehearsal, forgetting curve, nonsense syllables

James-Lange

Emotion = Physiological Arousal then emotional experience

Jean Piaget

4 stages of cognitive development, schemas

Konrad Lorenz

Imprinting, critical periods(of birds)

Lawrence Kohlberg

3 stages of moral development

Leon Festinger

Cognitive dissonance theory, people will lie about a boring task

Lev Vygotsky

Inner Speech, scaffolding, zone of proximal development

Mary Ainsworth

Strange situation, attachment styles(secure, avoidant, ambivalent)

Masters & Johnson

Lab experiments about sexual behavior; sexual response cycle

Musafer Sherif

Boy scout camp study; superordinate goals to diffuse conflict

Paul Broca

Studied the brain area associated with speech production, aphasia

Paul Ekman

Microexpressions, Universal facial expressions

Phil Zimbardo

Conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment; power of social roles

Schacter-Singer

Emotion = Physiological Arousal + Cognitively Label

Solomon Asch

Conformity, lines study

Stanley Milgram

Obedience to authority, “shocking” experiment

Thomas Bouchard

Minnesota twins reared apart study; nature/nurture

Wilhelm Wundt

Structuralism, Introspection, 1st psychology lab, father of psychology

William James

Functionalism, wrote 1st Psychology text

Yerkes-Dodson

Optimum level of arousal for performance

Phineas Gage

Early case study of brain damage, railroad spike through frontal lobe, personality change