92 Funny Psychologist Memes for Pscyhology Students

Are you having a hard time memorizing the different psychologists? Or are you a psychology teacher that wants to spice up lecture slides? Maybe you just randomly Google psychologist memes? Either way, we have some great psychologist memes for you!

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Psychologist Memes in Alphabetical Order by Last Name

Psychologist Meme Alfred Adler — Alfred Adler focused on the role of ego. For instance, he believed that people are motivated by fear of inferiority and desire for superiority. He also thought that birth order shapes personality.

Mary Ainsworth Psychology Meme — Mary Ainsworth researched attachment in infants. To do this, she created the Strange Situation Procedure. In her experiment, she monitored how infants reacted to their caregivers coming and going.

Gordon Allport Psychology Meme — Gordon Allport said that some people have a cardinal disposition. That means that a single personality trait influences everything they do. For example, Ebenezer Scrooge was motivated by greed.

Solomon Asch Psychology Meme — Through conformity experiments, Solomon Asch discovered that people will agree with an obviously wrong group answer 33% of the time. He was a gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology.

Albert Pandura Psychology Meme — Albert Bandura studied observational learning, especially concerning aggression. He used an experiment where children watched an adult hit a Bobo inflatable, and they copied the adult behavior.

Diana Baumrind Psychology Meme — Diana Baumrind classified parenting styles. Permissive places few limits. Authoritarian creates rigid rules. Authoritative has high expectations that explains their purpose to children.

Aaron Beck Psychology Meme — Cognitive therapist Aaron Beck believes that depression results from negative ideas. To treat patients, he challenged the negative ideas they had about themselves, their world, and their futures.

Alfred Binet Psychology Meme — Alfred Binet created the concept of mental age. Based on this idea, he created the first IQ test to help diagnose learning disabilities. His IQ test, called the Binet-Simon Scale, was published in 1908.

Thomas Bouchard Psychology Meme — Thomas Bouchard compared more than 100 identical twins. Those that had been adopted and raised by different families had similar IQs. However, those raised in the same home were even more similar.

Paul Broca Psychology Meme — Paul Broca discovered the area in the brain responsible for creating language. This area is now known as Broca’s area. Its discovery showed that different regions of the brain have different functions.

Alter Cannon Philip Bard Psychology Meme — Walter Cannon and Philip Bard believed that the thalamus changes our emotional and physiological states at the same time by simultaneously sending signals to the amygdala and automatic nervous system.

Raymond Cattle Psychology Meme — Raymond Cattell developed the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF Questionnaire). He believed that everyone has the same 16 traits. Although, different people have them to different degrees.

Nancy Chodorow Psychology Meme — Nancy Chodorow rejected Freud’s penis envy because women are not inferior to men. However, she agreed with Freud’s Oedipus crisis: sons compete with their dads and daughters with their moms.

Noam Chomsky Psychology Meme — Noam Chomsky says humans are born with language learning devices that allow children to rapidly learn language and allow people to make original sentences. Some call him “the father of modern linguistics.”

Paul Costa Robert McCrae Psychology Meme — Paul Costa and Robert McCrae worked together to describe personality with the big five personality traits. The five traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.

Mary Cover Jones Psychology Meme — As the mother of behavior therapy, Mary Cover Jones used direct conditioning (aka counterconditioning) to cure phobias. For example, she gave Peter candy when the scary rabbit got near.

John Farley Bibb Latane Psychology Meme — John Darley and Bibb Latane discovered the bystander effect or bystander apathy. According to their research, the more people who witness an emergency, the less likely anyone is to help the victims.

Charles Darwin Psychology Meme — Charles Darwin published natural selection theory: traits that increase surviving and reproducing are more likely to be passed down. Then people unsuccessfully tried to explain human behavior through instincts.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Psychology Meme — Hermann Ebbinghaus studied memory. He found that people are most likely to forget items in the middle of lists. Additionally, he described the forgetting curve, spacing effect, and learning curve.

Albert Ellis Psychology Meme — Albert Ellis developed rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). This therapy challenged illogical ways of thinking. As part of their treatment, he gave his patients homework to confront their fears.

Erik Erikson Psychology Meme — Erik Erikson created the psychosocial stage theory. It divided life into 8 stages of development. In each stage, people try to answer, “Who am I?” He also coined the term identity crisis.

Hans Eysenck Psychology Meme — Hans Eysenck created the Personality Questionnaire that classified personalities using an introversion/ extroversion scale and a stable/ unstable scale. He incorrectly believed that race affected IQ.

Gustav Fechner Psychology Meme — Gustav Fechner contributed to the just-noticeable difference law. Fechner found that at first a slight difference is noticeable, but with larger numbers it takes a big difference to be noticed.

Leon Festinare James Carlsmith Psychology Meme — Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith conducted a classic experiment on cognitive dissonance. This is when people experience an inner tension when their behaviors do not line up with their beliefs.

Margaret Floy Washburn Psychology Meme — Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman to earn her Ph.D. in psychology. She showed that psychologists can and should study mental processes despite the belief that they were not observable.

Sigmund Freud Psychology Meme — Sigmund Freud created psychoanalytic theory for abnormal pathologies. He believed the unconscious mind shaped behavior and personality. He used hypnosis, free association, and dream analysis.

Francis Galton Psychology Meme — Francis Galton pioneered the study of human intelligence and coined the phrase “nature verses nurture.” He used surveys to collect data and statistics to analyze it. Unfortunately, he also invented eugenics.

John Garcia Psychology Meme — Through his research on taste aversion, John Garcia showed that rats could connect odd tasting water with nausea. He also discovered that rats do not do as well connecting noise with shock.

Howard Gardner Psychology Meme — Howard Gardner created the theory of multiple intelligences. In it he identified eight intelligences. The eight intelligences are: musical, visual, verbal, logical, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, and naturalistic.

Michael Gazzaniga Psychology Meme — Michael Gazzaniga was one of Sperry’s graduate students and helped him treat epilepsy. While Gazzaniga never won the Nobel Peace Prize, he did become a leader in understanding split-brained patients.

Eleanor Gibson Psychology Meme — Eleanor Gibson focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants. For perceptual learning, she created the vertical cliff experiment. This led to discoveries about when human infants can perceive depth.

Carol Gilligan Psychology Meme — Carol Gilligan theorized that boys have a more absolute view of the world, while girls pay more attention to situational factors. She opposed Kohlberg’s stages of moral development because of its absoluteness.

Daniel Coleman Psychology Meme — Daniel Goleman is a supporter of EQ: emotional intelligence. For instance, he said that people with high IQ are not always successful. As rule, individuals need a balance of both IQ and EQ to succeed.

G. Stanley Hall Psychology Meme — In 1878, G. Stanley Hall earned the first doctorate degree in psychology. He pioneered the study of child development and became the first president of the American Psychological Association.

Harry Harlow Psychology Meme — Harry Harlow studied development and attachment. He used infant monkeys. The monkeys became more attached to cloth mothers than mothers with food because of contact comfort.

Ernest Hilgrad Psychology Meme — Ernest Hilgrad used disassociation to explain hypnosis. It’s when the mind splits with part hypnotized and part aware of reality. He tested pain under hypnosis by putting participants’ arms in ice baths.

Hippocrates Psychology Meme — Hippocrates, often hailed as the “Father of Medicine,” was the first to link biology with personality traits. He believed that four fluids influenced personality: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.

Thomas Holmes Richard Rahe Psychology Meme — Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe created the Social Readjustment Rate Scale (SRRS), also known as the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, to measure stress. The scale relates stressful life events to physical sickness.

Karen Horney Psychology Meme — Karen Horney challenged Freud’s concept of penis envy because it assumed male superiority. In response, she introduced “womb envy,” highlighting that both genders experience insecurities. She founded feminist psychology.

David Huber Torsten Wiesel Psychology Meme — David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize for discovering that different neurons in the visual cortex respond to different types of images. They laid the foundation for visual neuroscience.

Lenore Jacobson Psychology Meme — During the 1960s, Lenore Jacobson worked as a principal at a school in San Francisco. She let Rosenthal conduct his “Pygmalion in the Classroom” experiment about first impressions at her school.

William James Psychology Meme — William James, the father of American Psychology, wrote psychology’s first textbook called The Principles of Psychology. He was also the first person to teach a psychology course in the United States.

Irving Janis Psychology Meme — Irving Janis studied group dynamics. For example, he created “groupthink” theory. Groupthink is when people ignore their own ideas to go along with what the group thinks. This causes errors in collective decisions.

Virginia Johnson Psychology Meme — Virginia Johnson helped William Masters document the sexual response cycle in men and women by observing participants in their laboratory. Johnson and Masters married each other in 1971 and divorced in 1992.

Carl Jung Psychology Meme — Carl Jung said humans have personal and collective unconsciousness. Each person has his or her own personal unconscious. However, we share a collective unconscious which produces archetypes and universal concepts.

Harold Kelley Psychology Meme — Harold Kelley’s attribution theory said people consider consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus when deciding on causes of events. He also worked on interdependence theory to help understand human interactions.

George Kelly Psychology Meme — George Kelly, the father of clinical psychology, believed people made their own system to understand the world by using pairs of opposites. For example, people decided what was fair or unfair.

Alfred Kinsey Psychology Meme — Alfred Kinsey was the first major figure in American sexology. He recorded various sexual behaviors and developed a scale measuring sexual orientation. He theories and research are quite controversial!

Lawrence Kohlberg Psychology Meme — Lawrence Kohlberg studied moral development by asking boys about moral dilemmas. For example, if Joe Jonas loses all his money, and his wife Sophia gets sick, should he steal medicine for her?

Wolfgang Kohler Psychology Meme — Wolfgang Kohler studied insight learning in chimpanzees. The chimps suddenly realized that they needed to stack boxes to reach bananas. As a result, Kohler called their “aha experience” insight learning.

Carl Lange Psychology Meme — Carl Lange said that stress causes biological changes which cause us to feel emotion. William James published a similar theory around the same time, so it became known as the James-Lange theory of emotion.

Richard LaPiere Psychology Meme — Richard LaPiere conducted a study about racism in 1934. Most West Coast restaurants said they would not serve Asians when called. However, when Asians arrived, most restaurants politely served them.

Elizabeth Loftus Psychology Meme — Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated that memories deemed “repressed” often prove to be inaccurate or nonexistent. She applied this misinformation effect to court cases, shedding light on the unreliability of recovered memories.

Konrad Lorenz Psychology Meme — Zoologist Konrad Lorenz was one of the founders of ethology, the study of animal behavior. He focused on instinctive behavior, especially the fascinating phenomenon of imprinting during the critical attachment periods of young birds.

Alexander Luria Psychology Meme — Alexander Luria studied eidetic (photographic) memory. For instance, one of his subjects could repeat a list of 70 letters or digits 15 years after seeing it. He also worked with patients that had brain injuries.

Abraham Maslow Psychology Meme — In Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, people satisfy their basic needs first (food, water, shelter, and safety). Then they can try to satisfy their psychological needs and self-fulfillment needs.

William Masters Psychology Meme — William Masters documented the sexual response cycle in men and women. Accordingly, the show Masters of Sex is about him and Johnson, his research assistant (and at one point wife).

Stanley Milgram Psychology Meme — Stanley Milgram studied obedience. He saw 60% of people give severe electric shocks when directed by authority figures. He also created the 6° of Separation theory. The Experimenter is about him.

George Miller Psychology Meme — George Miller, a cognitive psychologist, showed that people usually remember 7 items in short-term memory. Hence he called his experiments, “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two.”

Ivan Pavlov Psychology Meme — Ivan Pavlov performed conditioning experiments. He is particularly known for his experiments that caused dogs to associate the sound of a bell with food. As a result, the dogs to salivated every time he rung a bell!

Fritz Perls Psychology Meme — Fritz Perls developed Gestalt therapy, which combines actions together with feelings and thoughts. Perls encouraged awareness of sensations, perceptions, and feelings at the present moment.

Jean Piaget Psychology Meme — Jean Piaget studied how our thought processes develop in stages as we grow. Thus he created a four stage theory of child development and emphasized the importance of childhood education.

Rosalie Rayner Psychology Meme — Rosalie Rayner helped Watson “condition” Little Albert to fear white rats. This fear was then generalized to other white furry items. Later, she wrote about child development and familial bonds.

Robert Rescorla Psychology Meme — Robert Rescorla conducted a number of conditioning experiments on animals. He concluded that classical conditioning rewards need to be reliable. This is because subjects learn the predictability of getting a reward.

Carl Rogers Psychology Meme — Carl Rogers, the Mr. Rogers of psychology, was a founder of the humanist approach to psychology. He believed that people are naturally good. They need openness, acceptance, and empathy to grow.

David Rosenhan Psychology Meme — David Rosenhan questioned if people have mental disorders forever. He had people fake mental illnesses, enter hospitals, then stop pretending. Hospitals released them thinking they were in remission.

Robert Rosenthal Psychology Meme — Robert Rosenthal conducted his “Pygmalion in the Classroom” experiment at Principal Lenore Jacobson’s school. He found that students who teachers were told were smarter did better that year.

Julian Rotter Psychology Meme — Julian Rotter says people are guided by an external locus of control (think outside forces control their destinies) or an internal locus of control (they control their own destinies). The latter is usually happier.

Stanley Schachter Psychology Meme — Social psychologist Stanley Schachter created the most complete theory of emotion, the Two-Factor Theory. Emotion depends on biology (physiological arousal) and cognition (how we label that arousal).

Martin Seligman Psychology Meme — Martin Seligman taught dogs learned helplessness. After being shocked many times, they thought there was nothing they could do to prevent it. So when they could prevent it, they didn’t try.

Hans Seyle Psychology Meme — Endocrinologist Hans Seyle described the stages of stress with his General Adaptation Syndrome. When a person experience stress, they go through three stages: alarm, resistance, then exhaustion.

William Sheldon Psychology Meme — William Sheldon incorrectly associated body types with temperaments. He called this field of study somatotype (classify people) and constitutional psychology (label personality based on somatotype).

Muzafer Sherif Psychology Meme — Social psychologist Muzafer Sherif led prejudice experiments at a summer camp. He showed how out-group bias is created. Then he used superordinate (shared) goals to help kids break prejudice.

B.F. Skinner Psychology Meme — B.F. Skinner added positive and negative reinforcement to behaviorism and called it operant conditioning. Skinner also invented a special box to research this in animals. He named it the Skinner Box.

Charles Spearman Psychology Meme — Psychologist and statistician Charles Spearman believed that intelligence could be measured by general intelligence (g factor) and specific abilities (s factor). This became his two-factor theory of intelligence.

George Sperling Psychology Meme — Cognitive psychologist George Sperling showed how sensory memory works. He flashed images for 1/20th of a second and asked people to recall them. Sperling called the ability to remember this information iconic memory.

Roger Sperry Psychology Meme — The corpus callosum joins the right and left-brain hemispheres. Because of this, neuropsychologist Roger Sperry cut patients’ corpus callosum to treat epilepsy. His split-brain research won him a Nobel Prize.

Robert Sternberg Psychology Meme — Human development professor Robert Sternberg said that there are 3 types of intelligence. The three types are analytic, practical, and creative. This theory is called the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.

Lewis Terman Psychology Meme — Lewis Terman created intelligence quotient (IQ). IQ = mental age/chronological age x 100. This test was first used to categorize US army recruits during WWI. He pioneered educational psychology.

Edward Tolman Psychology Meme — Edward Tolman studied latent learning. Rats learned mazes faster if there was a piece of cheese at the end! He founded purposive behaviorism: study of behavior and purpose or goal of that behavior.

Lev Vygotsky Psychology Meme — Lev Vygotsky called the tasks children can do with guidance (but not on their own) the zone of proximal development. He thought the play of preschoolers was the main source of their psychological development.

John Watson Psychology Meme — With the help of Rayner, John Watson performed conditioning experiments. One caused little Albert to fear white rats. He made behaviorism popular for animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising.

Ernest Weber Psychology Meme — Ernest Weber: Have you heard of Weber’s Law? It says that two things which are different by at least a certain percentage will be seen as different. This percentage is 5% for sound and 8% for vision.

David Wechsler Psychology Meme — David Wechsler created standardized IQ tests with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. Two of his tests are called the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.

Carl Wernicke Psychology Meme — Wernicke’s Area interprets both written and spoken speech. He and Broca helped people learn that different areas of the brain have their own specific functions like forming and interpreting speech.

Max Wertheimer Psychology Meme — Max Wertheimer was a pioneer in Gestalt psychology. He wrote the book Productive Thinking and observed the visual phi phenomenon which is responsible for the illusion of motion in cinema and animation.

Mary Whiton Calkins Psychology Meme — Philosopher and psychologist Mary Whiton Calkins studied under William James. She became the first female president of the American Psychological Association and the American Philosophical Association.

Benjamin Whorf Psychology Meme — Benjamin Whorf’s linguistic relativity hypothesis said that language shapes the way we think and what we think about. He studied the languages of Native Americans and ancient civilizations.

Joseph Wolpe Psychology Meme — Joseph Wolpe used systematic desensitization to help anxiety, especially phobias. He had clients replace feelings of anxiety with relaxation through breathing exercises and meditation.

Wilhelm Wundt Psychology Meme — Professor Wilhelm Wundt set up the first psychological lab. He is considered the “father of experimental psychology” because he separated psychology from the other fields of philosophy and biology.

Phillip Zimbardo Psychology Meme — Phillip Zimbardo had college students role-play as prisoners and guards which caused them to act in surprisingly negative ways. This 1971 Stanford prison experiment showed that roles are powerful.

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