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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.

Social learning theory, proposed by Albert Bandura, emphasizes the importance of observing, modeling, and imitating the behaviors of others.

Kolb's theory explains that concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation form a four-stage process (or cycle).

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four stages of intellectual development.

John Bowlby developed theories on attachment and maternal deprivation based on observations of children separated from their mothers due to hospitalization or other reasons.

Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, carried out one of psychology's most famous studies of obedience.

In Zimbardo's Stanford Prison experiment, participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups, guards or prisoners. After a few days, the prisoners staged a failed revolt and were punished by the guards.

Pavlov’s theory of learning posits that behaviors can be learned through the association between different stimuli.

During the 1960s, Albert Bandura conducted a series of experiments on observational learning, collectively known as the Bobo doll experiments.

Freud’s personality theory (1923) saw the psyche structured into three parts (i.e., tripartite), the id, ego, and superego, all developing at different stages in our lives.