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Theorist and Their Theory

This document lists several important theorists in psychology and their key theories. It includes Wilhelm Wundt who opened the first psychology lab, Daniel Goleman who advocated for emotional intelligence, and Howard Gardner who proposed multiple intelligences. Other theorists mentioned are Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, Albert Bandura, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Noam Chomsky, and Abraham Maslow. The document provides a high-level overview of some of the most influential psychologists and cognitive scientists and some of their seminal works and theories.

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Theorist and Their Theory

This document lists several important theorists in psychology and their key theories. It includes Wilhelm Wundt who opened the first psychology lab, Daniel Goleman who advocated for emotional intelligence, and Howard Gardner who proposed multiple intelligences. Other theorists mentioned are Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, Albert Bandura, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Noam Chomsky, and Abraham Maslow. The document provides a high-level overview of some of the most influential psychologists and cognitive scientists and some of their seminal works and theories.

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*THEORIST AND THEIR THEORY* *WILHELM WUNDT – father of psychology, opens

the first formal psychological laboratory (university


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

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