Beruflich Dokumente
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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
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