In this blog we will tell you about the 22 famouse psychologists in the history and which theories, experiment or concepts they contributed to psychology. These theories/experiments/concepts made them eternal in the field of psychology and changed the way we view human mind and behavior.
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Ainsworth, Mary – Attachment Theory
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Asch, Solomon – Conformity Experiment
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Bandura, Albert – Social Learning Theory
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Bowlby, John – Attachment Theory
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Bruner, Jerome – cognitive development of children
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Erikson, Erik – Theory of Psychosocial Development
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Freud, Sigmund – psychoanalysis
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Kohlberg, Lawrence – moral development
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Kolb, David – experiential learning styles theory
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Kuhn, Thomas Samuel – developmental psychology
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Maslow, Abraham – Hierarchy of Needs
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Milgram, Stanley – obedience experiment
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Pavlov, Ivan – conditioned/unconditioned response
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Piaget, Jean – cognitive development
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Popper, Karl – distinguishing science from non-science
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Rogers, Carl – self actualization
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Skinner, B. F. – operant conditioning
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Thorndike, Edward – operant conditioning within behaviorism
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Vygotsky, Lev – sociocultural theory
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Watson, John – classical conditioning within behaviourism
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Wundt, Wilhelm – structuralism, founder of experimental psychology
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Zimbardo, Philip – Stanford Prison Experiment
