Psychology Prep Quiz - The Great Minds of Chapter Five

He was studying salivation in dogs as part of a research program on digestion.

• Skinner

• Pavlov

• Tolman

• Kohler

• Seligman

He is best known for studying the phenomenon of insight in animals.

• Tolman

• Pavlov

• Skinner

• Kohler

• Seligman

Who developed the concept of latent learning?

• Tolman

• Bandura

• Skinner

• Seligman

• Kohler

He is most closely associated with research on learned helplessness.

• Seligman

• Pavlov

• Thorndike

• Tolman

• Skinner

This researcher is responsible for discovering classical conditioning.

• Pavlov

• Watson

• Skinner

• Wundt

• Freud

Their research is the basis for operant conditioning.

• Thorndike and Skinner

• Freud and Tolman

• Thorndike and Kohler

• Tolman and Seligman

• Bandura and Skinner

He is most closely associated with an observational learning experiment involving children and violence.

• Seligman

• Tolman

• Bandura

• Skinner

• Pavlov

The box in which he tested animals' responses to rewards on varying schedules has come to symbolize operant conditioning.

• Skinner

• Seligman

• Pavlov

• Tolman

• Kohler

His Law of Effect states that when an action results in a pleasurable consequence, the probability of repeating that

action increases.

• Thorndike

• Tolman

• Freud

• Skinner

• Kohler

Whose experimental animals began to salivate when they saw lab assistants, before they even received food?

• Pavlov

• Seligman

• Skinner

• Kohler

• Wundt