People of Psychology

Who conducted the first laboratory experience in psychology concerning psychophysics and the atoms of the mind?

• G. Stanley Hall

• Socrates

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

Who is associated with studying both learned helplessness and started the field of positive psychology?

• Martin Seligman

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Philip Zimbardo

• Mary Calkins

Which psychologist is MOST associated with the creation of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in cognitive psychology?

• Carl Rogers

• Albert Ellis

• Aaron Beck

• Sigmund Freud

Which person in psychology is considered the father of classical conditioning because of his work with dogs?

• B.F. Skinner

• E.L. Thorndike

• Ivan Pavlov

• E.C. Toleman

Who conducted the famous memory experiment involving misinformation effect and wording effects about a car crash?

• Mary Ainsworth

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Sigmund Freud

• Paul Ekman

Who observed that people from all cultures exhibit the same facial expressions, but also abide by the display rules of when to show certain expressions of emotion?

• E.C. Toleman

• Paul Ekman

• Aaron Beck

• David Buss

Who conducted a study a involving the Heinz moral dilemma (steal the drug), and classified morals into pre, post and conventional stages?

• Mary Ainsworth

• Erik Erikson

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Carl Jung

Who created to cat puzzle box to prove the law of effect (if the behavior results in a positive outcome, the behavior will be repeated)?

• Harry Harlow

• E.C. Tolman

• E.L. Thorndike

• Albert Bandura

Who conducted a 'shocking' study regarding obedience and compliance that is now deemed unethical in the field of psychology?

• Jean Piaget

• Solomon Asch

• Alfred Binet

• Stanley Milgram

Who would be most associated with the forgetting curve and his study of the serial position effect? (Hint: He is the father of memory research).

• Konrad Lorenz

• Hermann Ebbinghaus

• Martin Seligman

• B.F. Skinner