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Famous People in Psychology

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the father of psychology?

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

B. F Skinner

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Wilhem Wundt

2.

Which psychologists are at the center of the humanism theory?

a)

Abraham Maslow and Carl Rodgers

b)

Sigmund Freud and Karl Wernicke

c)

Carl Rodgers and William James

d)

Abraham Maslow and John B. Watson

3.

Who belonged to the functionalism school of psychology?

a)

Hugh Green

b)

William James

c)

B.F Skinner

d)

Thomas Young

4.

Who believed the unconscious mind controls your thoughts?

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Erik Erikson

5.

Who belonged to the behaviorism school of psychology and studied classical conditioning?

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

Carl Rodgers

c)

William James

d)

Carl Jung

6.

Who studied the sciences of evolution to form the evolutionary perspective?

a)

Albert Bandura

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Stanley Milgram

d)

Charles Darwin

7.

Who created operant conditioning?

a)

Thomas Young

b)

B.F Skinner

c)

Wilhem Wundt

d)

Edward Thorndike

8.

Who was a pioneer in the field of child psychology?

a)

Jean Piaget

b)

Erik Erikson

c)

Albert Bandura

d)

Gordon Allport

9.

Who studied “Little Albert” and focused mainly on behaviorism?

a)

James Marcia

b)

John B. Watson

c)

B.F Skinner

d)

Carl Jung

10.

Who is the narrator in Crash Course; Psych?

a)

Hank Green

b)

Harry Harlow

c)

Hugh Green

d)

John Green

11.

Who was the early developer of the color theory?

a)

Alfred Binet

b)

Philip Zimbardo

c)

Thomas Young

d)

Carl Rogers

12.

Who formulated the law of effect and focused on animals?

a)

Edward Thorndike

b)

William James

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Abraham Maslow

13.

Who studied perception and discovered how the left temporal lobe controls language?

a)

Stanley Milgram

b)

Erik Erikson

c)

Alfred Binet

d)

Karl Wernicke

14.

Who was a conductor of a famous and controversial research study of obedience to authority?

a)

Thomas Hobbes

b)

John B. Watson

c)

Stanley Milgram

d)

Nicolaus Copernicus

15.

Who was the 19th century mathematician and scientist who studied how heredity influences a person’s abilities, character and behavior?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Robert Boyle

c)

Sir Francis Galton

d)

Martin Seligman

16.

Who studied the social cognitive theory and contributed to educational psychology?

a)

Stanley Milgram

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

John B. Watson

d)

Sigmund Freud

17.

Who was the psychologist that described the four identity states?

a)

James Marcia

b)

Thomas Young

c)

Carl Jung

d)

Edward Thorndike

18.

He is known for his theory on psychological developments of human beings.

a)

Kurt Lewin

b)

Erik Erikson

c)

Leon Festinger

d)

Carl Jung

19.

Who was the founder of the field of social psychology?

a)

Karl Wernicke

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

Anna Freud

d)

Kurt Lewin

20.

Who independently proposed the theory of emotion?

a)

James Lange

b)

Solomon Asch

c)

John Bowlby

d)

Rollo May

21.

Who founded analytical psychology?

a)

Hans Eysenck

b)

Carl Jung

c)

Stanely Milgram

d)

Martin Seligman

22.

What is the highest grossing film of all time?

a)

Star Wars

b)

Avatar

c)

Titanic

d)

Frozen

23.

What did Kylie Jenner name her baby?

a)

Sunni

b)

Princess

c)

Chicago

d)

Stormi

24.

What is the name of the basketball team in "One Tree Hill" ?

a)

Cougars

b)

Ravens

c)

Skyhawks

d)

Wildcats