*THEORIST AND THEIR THEORY*
the first formal psychological laboratory (university
*DANIEL GOLEMAN – Advocated the emotional
intelligence that determine learning
*HOWARD GARDNER – Advocated the theory of
multiple intelligence
*BURRHUS F. SKINNER – Proponent of Operant
conditioning
*IVAN P. PAVLOV – proponent of classical
conditioning
*LAWRENCE A. KOHLBERG – proposes the stages of
moral development
*JEAN PIAGET – devised the most complete theory of
cognitive development
*ALBERT BANDURA – proposes social inputs in
observational learning
*LEV SEMIONOVICH VYGOTSKY – theorized socio
cultural perspective on learning and language
*SIGMUND FREUD – proposes the stages of
psychosexual development
*ERIK ERIKSON – proponent of the psychosocial
stages of development
*AVRAN NOAM CHOMSKY – in psycholinguistics,
believes that man has predisposition to language
*EDWARD LEE THORNDIKE – proposes the 3 laws of
learning
*ABRAHAM MASLOW – advocated the “Hierarchy of
motivation/needs” safety & security, love &
belongingness, self esteem & self actualization
*MARTIN HOFFMAN – proposes moral development
that focuses on motivation, experience and parental
guidance
*JOHN BROADUS WATSON – father of Behaviorism
*GALEN – he proposed the theory of Temperament
*WILHELM WUNDT – father of psychology, opens
of Leipzig, Germany)
*ALFRED BINET – father of Intelligence Test
*JOHN LOCK – he declared that at birth the mind is
a blank slate (tabula rasa)
*CARL ROGERS – he publishes Counseling and
Psychotherapy, setting forth to his humanistic
approach to therapy
*ALFRED ADLER – claims that man, especially
children have feelings of inferiority that drive them
to adapt and develop skills (or bully)
*WILLIAM MCDOUGALL – proponent of
Purposivism that claims man acts based on goals in
life
*KRASHEN – he hypothesizes an effective filter or
mental block that prevents acquirers from utilizing
the comprehensive input they receive for language
acquisition
*CHARLES DARWIN – he published the Origin of
Species, propounding the theory of evolution
through natural selection
*RENE DESCARTES – he characterizes the mind-
body relationship as one of interaction
*WILLIAM JAMES – wrote the “Principles of
Psychology”/consciousness
*HYPOTHALAMUS – brain’s stress center