created the Law of Effect: behaviors followed by positive consequences are strengthened, those followed by negative consequences are diminished
Mary Floy Washburn
first woman in America to receive a Ph.D. in psychology
Alfred Kinsey
studied sexual orientation and estimated 10% of the population in the early 1900s were homosexual
Paul Broca
identified the area of the brain responsible for language; damage to the area results in expressive aphasia, or the inability to produce language
Philip Zombardo
conducted a study on the power of situations and roles by simulating a prison environment
Roger Sperry
studied how the different hemispheres operate independent of each other
Carol Gilligan
disagreed with Kohlberg due to supposed male/female differences in morality; said females made moral decisions based more on social relationships
Carl Jung
felt the unconscious incorporated both personal and collective unconscious; archetypes are ancestral memories that show up as symbols in many different cultures
Eric Erickson
developed the eight stages of psychosocial development, each of which contains a possible conflict
Robert Sternberg
developed the triarchic theory of intelligence, stating that intelligence is either analytical, creative, or practical
