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Psychologist

Date of Birth

Date of Death

Major Contribution

Interesting Fact

Alfred Adler

February 7, 1870

1937

He believed that inferiority feelings help determine a Since he agreed with person's behavior; this led to the creation of thr freud's book on dream inrferiorty complex which makes people incapable of analysis, Freud invited coping with problems. He also discovered a Adler to be a part of his relationship between birth order and their discussion group. personality.

Gordon Allport

1897

1967

He was teased as a child, and didnt have many friends. He found that adolescent agression often comes from parents with aggressive attitudes. He also He was awarded with found the components that can help someone the Bolocan Award in learn a modeled behavior: attention, retention, Psychology reproduction, and motivation. He was the first person to collect data from all He was rejected from th fields of study instead of just one field. He also HMS Beagle because discovered the idea of natural selection, and he the captain thought he found a relationship between human and animal had a lazy-man nose behavior.

Albert Bandura

December 4 1925

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Charles Darwin

February 12, 1809

1882

Dorothea Dix He believed that a person's personality was developed throughout his or her lifetime. He also believed that there are eight steps of He was America's first psychosocial stages of development. Each step is child analyst. a different problem that must be solved before moving on to the next step.

Erik Erikson

June 15 1902

1994

Sigmund Freud

May 6 1856

1939

He came up with the Psychosexual Stage Theory which explains how sex is a part of every humans development. Every person performs certain sexual acts at certain points in their life. He is also famous for he psychoanalytic techniques. She was famous for her theory on neurosis, which explained the order of importance of different neurotic needs.

He was diagnosed with mouth and jaw cancer; he had to undergo over 30 surgeries. He eventually died from the cancer. She suffered from depression for most of her life.

Karen Horney

September 16 1885

1952

William James

January 11 1842

1910

Carl Jung

July 26 1875

1961

He combined his ideas of psychology and He had attended schools philosophy in his book "The Principles of in five different Psychology". This book led to the beginning of countries by the time he American Funtionalism. was 18. He discovered introverted and extraverted personality types. He had a theory that the It is believed that he collective unconcious was a living entity that cured a paralyzed used man as a medium. Unlike freud, he woman with hypnosis believed the fear of death was the main motivation for all people

Lawrence Kohlberg He discovered that some needs are more He became interested in important than others. He formed a hierarchy of psychology at the needs, which put human needs in order of University of importance Wisconsin. He created many advances in theoretical and He was the oldest of 11 practical medicine; for example, he showed the children, but six of his relationship between the nervous system and the siblings died during digestive system. He also studied how reflexes childhood. work and their effects.

Abraham Maslow

April 1 1908

1970

Ivan Pavlov

September 14 1849

1936

Jean Piaget

August 9 1896

1980

Carl Rogers

January 8 1902

1987

He developed the four stages of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, He received the concrete operational and formal operational). He Erasmus Prize in 1972. mainly studied children and their modes of learning and thinking. He believed in helping others help themselves instead of just diagnosing people. He believed He originally wanted to clients were the only ones that could chang their become a farmer. emotional state, therapists could only help guide them in the right direction. He studied the effects of positive and negative reinforcement. He found that certain behaviors could be stopped with punishment. He was famous for performing many psychological experiments, and his ideas of behaviorism. As a child, he enjoyed teaching pigeons to do tricks. He was awarded a gold medal from the APA.

B.F. Skinner

March 20 1904

1990

John Watson

January 9,1878

1958

Wilhelm Wundt

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