GRE Psychology Important Names
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who studied the effect of competition on performance and found that people perform better on familiar tasks when in the presence of others than when alone?
Norman Triplett
William McDougall
E.H. Ross
Verplank
Pavlov
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who created the social facilitation effect? For example, cyclists tend to have faster times when riding in the presence of a counterpart as opposed to riding alone?
Norman Triplett
William McDougall
E.H. Ross
Verplank
Pavlov
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who published the first textbooks on social psychology and defended that all matter has a mental aspect?
Norman Triplett
William McDougall
E.H. Ross
Verplank
Pavlov
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who suggested that social approval influences behavior? For example, the course of a conversation changes dramatically based upon feedback (approval) from others?
Norman Triplett
William McDougall
E.H. Ross
Verplank
Pavlov
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who helped to establish reinforcement theory?
I. Verplank
II. Pavlov
III. Thorndike
IV. Hull
V. B. F. Skinner
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who considered personality to be a collection of behavior that happens to have been sufficiently reinforced to persist, and the result of behavioral development of an organism?
B.F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
Carl Rogers
Albert Bandura
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who coined positive reinforcement (the case where you reward someone in order to increase the frequency of a behavior)?
Hull
B. F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
Robert Rescorla
E.L. Thorndike
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