FAMOUS NAMES/STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY THAT YOU MAY NEED TO

KNOW
As suggested by the AP psychology workshop handbook
1. HISTORY AND EARLY APPROACHES
Wilhelm Wundt & Structuralism
history,
William James & Functionalism
Genevese)
And the firsts: Mary Whiton Calkins,
experiments,
Margaret Floy Washburn, G.Stanley Hall
study
3. BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
Charles Darwin
Paul Broca
Roger Sperry
Carl Wernicke
Michael Gazzaniga

2. RESEARCH METHODS
Descriptive: Phineas Gage, case
Correlation: Bystander Effect (Kitty
Experiment: Aschs conformity
Milgrams obedience
4. SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
Gustav Fechner
Ernest Weber
David Hubel
Torsten Wiesel

5. STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
6. LEARNING
William James
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
Edward Tolman
Ernest Hilgard
B. F. Skinner
Robert Rescorla
Albert Bandura
7. COGNITION
Herman Ebbinghaus
Wolfgang Kohler
George A Miller
Noam Chomsky
Elizabeth Loftus
Hans Selye
9. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Sigmund Freud Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
Lev Vygotsky
Rogers
Carol Gilligan
Lawrence Kholberg
Bandura
Konrad Lorenz
Harry Harlow
McCrae
Mary Ainsworth Diana Baumrind
Albert Bandura B. F. Skinner

Edward Thorndike
John B. Watson
John Garcia

8. MOTIVATION AND EMOTION

James-Lange
Cannon-Bard
Schacter Two Factor
Abraham Maslow
Alfred Kinsey
10. PERSONALITY
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Abraham Maslow
Alfred Adler
Paul Costa

Carl

Albert
Robert

MMPI and TAT

11. TESTING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

12.&13. ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR AND
ITS TREATMENT
Alfred Binet
Francis Galton
Alfred Pinel
Dorothea Dix
Howard Gardner Charles Spearman
Aaron Beck
Albert Ellis

Robert Sternberg Louis Terman

Jones
David Wechsler
14. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Solomon Asch
Leon Festinger
Stanley Milgram
Phillip Zimbardo

Sigmund Freud

Mary Cover

Carl Rogers
B. F. Skinner
Joseph Wolpe
DSM
Rosenham study