AP Psych Famous People

He studied male college students who volunteered to spend time in a simulated prison.

• Stanley Milgrim
• Phillip Zimbardo
• Noam Chomsky
• Wilhelm Wundt

He is the creator of the g factor, or the general intelligence concept

• Stanley Milgrim

• Harry Harlow

• Charles Spearman

• Robert Sternberg

Her theory of parenting styles had three main types:

permissive, authoritative & authoritarian

• Mary Caulkins

• Margaret Washburn

• Karen Horney

• Diana Baumrind

This person studied attachment in infants using the stranger

situation model, which labeled infants as secure, and insecure in attachment.

• Mary Ainsworth

• Karen Horney

• Dorthea Dix

• Diana Baumrind

He developed Two-Factor theory of emotion (with Singer);

experiments on spillover effect

• William James

• Stanley Schachter

• John Watson

• Ernst Weber

He studied absolute threshold and JND (Just Noticeable
Difference) between two stimuli

• Ernst Weber
• Howard Gardner
• Carl Rogers
• Hans Seyllye

She was an American activist on behalf of the insane who
created the first American mental generation of asylums.

• Mary Ainsworth
• Mary Calkins
• Karen Horney
• Dorthea Dix

He developed a distortion room that is named after him where

people of similar sizes appear to be at different heights.

• Wilhelm Wundt
• Adelbert Ames
• William James
• Howard Gardner

American psychologist who studied attachment to caregivers in infant monkeys

• Harry Harlow
• Stanley Milgrim
• Phillip Zimbardo
• Solomon Asch

She charged that psychoanalytic theory as developed by Freud was male-biased and proposed a more social-cultural approach to balance the masculine view of psychology of the time

• Mary Ainsworth
• Margaret Washburn
• Dorthea Dix
• Karen Horney