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created theory of evolution which helped observe animal behavior. this then allowed scientists to relate animal behavior to human behavior
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wrote the first psychology textbook, may have had the first psychology lab in America; established functionalism
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established psychology as a separate scientific discipline, sought to determine the mind through analytic introspection
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was invited to organize and direct the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine
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established psychoanalysis via work with female clients in Austria, believed the roots of psychological problems were motives that reside in the part of the mind of which we are unaware called the “subconscious”; dream analysis
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established radical behavioralism
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theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called “genetic epistermology”
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a 'bag of symptoms
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maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development.
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Chomsky published an influential critique of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior, a book in which Skinner offered a theoretical account of language in functional, behavioral terms.
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published youth and crisis, also discovered the developmental theory
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Mother of behavioral therapy, Jones received the prestigious G. Stanley Hall Award from the American Psychological Association (APA)
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He authored Growth of the Child (1978), pioneer in the field of developmental psychology. He has shown that an infant's "temperament" can predict certain other behaviorals patterns that appear in adolescence.
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Explained his theory of operant conditioning in his book About Behaviorism
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believed that aggression is learned through a process called behavior modeling. He believed that individuals do not actually inherit violent tendencies, but they modeled them after three principles
