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Famous Psychologists & Their Contributions

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Established the first psychology laboratory and is considered the 'father of experimental psychology'.

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William James

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Pioneered the James-Lange theory of emotion and is known for his work on pragmatism and functionalism.

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Sigmund Freud

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Developed psychoanalysis and theories of the unconscious mind, including concepts like the id, ego, and superego.

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B.F. Skinner

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Famous for work on operant conditioning and the invention of the Skinner box.

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Jean Piaget

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Known for his theory of cognitive development in children, which includes stages like sensorimotor and preoperational.

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Ivan Pavlov

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Discovered classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs, leading to the concept of conditioned reflexes.

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Carl Rogers

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Developed person-centered therapy and contributed to the humanistic approach in psychology.

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Albert Bandura

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Proposed the social learning theory and is known for the Bobo doll experiments, illustrating observational learning.

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Edward Thorndike

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Famous for the law of effect and his work on connectionism and operant conditioning.

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Carl Jung

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Founded analytical psychology, proposed the concepts of the collective unconscious and archetypes.

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Erik Erikson

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Known for his theory on psychosocial development, which outlines eight stages of human growth.

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Kurt Lewin

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Developed field theory and is considered the founder of social psychology.

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Abraham Maslow

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Created Maslow's hierarchy of needs and contributed to humanistic psychology.

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Gordon Allport

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Known for his trait theory of personality and the concept of functional autonomy.

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John B. Watson

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Founder of behaviorism and famous for the Little Albert experiment demonstrating classical conditioning.

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Renowned for her research on the malleability of human memory and the misinformation effect.

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Raymond Cattell

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Developed the theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence and contributed to personality trait theory.

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David McClelland

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Known for his work on motivation and the need for achievement theory.

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Alfred Binet

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Developed the first widely used intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale.

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Herman Ebbinghaus

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Pioneered the experimental study of memory and developed the forgetting curve and spacing effect.

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Carl Gustav Hempel

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Influential in the philosophy of science, particularly in the logical positivist tradition, and contributed to the covering law model of explanation.

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Donald O. Hebb

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Proposed Hebb's rule, which is a theory explaining synaptic plasticity as the mechanism of learning in the brain.

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Stanley Milgram

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Conducted the Milgram experiment, which studied obedience to authority figures.

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Philip Zimbardo

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Known for the Stanford prison experiment, which investigated the psychological effects of perceived power.

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Lev Vygotsky

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Developed the sociocultural theory of cognitive development and introduced the concept of the zone of proximal development.

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