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1. Aaron Beck Cognitive perspective; cognitive therapy

2. Abraham Maslow Humanistic perspective; hierarchy of needs and self-actualization3. Albert Bandura Sociocultural perspective; social learning theory

(observational learning) and theory of self-efficacy

4. Albert Ellis Behavioral perspective; rational-emotive behavioraltherapy (REBT)

5. Alfred Adler Psychodynamic perspective; theory of inferiority,psychological defense mechanism of compensation,

and birth order theory

6. Alfred Binet Cognitive perspective; the Stanford-Binet test (first testto measure IQ)

7. Anna Freud Psychodynamic perspective; psychological defensemechanisms

8. Anna O. Psychodynamic perspective; patient of Josef Breuer andfirst patient of psychoanalysis

9. Benjamin Whorf Sociocultural perspective; linguistic relativity hypothesis10.B. F. Skinner Behavioral perspective; operant conditioning, Skinner

box, and (attempted) pigeon-controlled missile

11.Carl Jung Psychodynamic perspective; personal unconscious,collective unconscious, and archetypes

12.Carl Rogers Humanistic perspective; unconditional positive regard,self-actualizing tendency, self-concept, and types of self

(real and ideal self)

13.Carol Gilligan Cognitive perspective; arguing that Kohlbergs stages of

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moral development were too male-oriented and stating

that men judge as moral actions that lead to justice

while women judge as moral nonviolent actions

14.Charles Darwin Evolutionary perspective; evolution, natural selection,and adaptation

15.Charles Spearman Cognitive perspective; g factor and s factor ofintelligence

16.Clark Hull Biological perspective; drive-reduction theory

17.Daniel Goleman Cognitive perspective; emotional intelligence18.Darley and Latane Sociocultural perspective; bystander effect

19.David McClelland Cognitive perspective; Need Theory (nAch, nPow, andnAff)

20.David Rosenhan Biological perspective; Rosenhan experiment, whichchallenged psychiatric diagnosis as being grossler

inaccurate

21.David Weschler Cognitive perspective; developing IQ tests designed forspecific age groups, such as the Weschler Adult

Intelligence Scale, the Weschler Intelligence Scale for

Children, and the Weschler Preschool and Primary Scale

of Intelligence

22.Hermann Ebbinghaus Cognitive perspective; developing the forgetting curveand spacing effect

23.Edward Thorndike Behavioral perspective; work with cats in the puzzlebox and the Law of Effect

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24.Ekman and Friesen Cognitive perspective; facial feedback hypothesis

25.Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Sociocultural perspective; five stages of grief

26.Elizabeth Loftus Cognitive perspective; work with eyewitnesstestimonies, constructive processing, and the

misinformation effect

27.Erik Erikson Psychodynamic perspective; Eriksons psychosocialstages of development

28.Ernst Weber Biological perspective; Webers law (just-noticeabledifference)

29.Francis Galton Cognitive perspective; work in psychometrics,differential psychology, and studying intelligence