WorksheetsPsychologists and Their Contributions (1-5, 16-20, 31-35, 46-50)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Frances Galton
Believed that childhood social tensions are crucial for personality formation
Maintained that personality and ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance
Theory of evolution
Founder of behaviorism
Which psychologist believed in the theory of evolution/survival of the fittest?
Alfred Adler
Albert Ellis
Charles Darwin
Gordon Allport
What did William Wundt believe?
Introspection psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience
Humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
What WASN'T John Watson the founder of?
Operant conditioning
Humanistic Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Who was Little Albert?
Participated in Watson's study of fear, conditioning the subject to be afraid
Believed people evolved through 8 stages of life
Said there are 3 types of receptors in the eye
Believed in id-ego-superego
What did Erik Erikson believe
People have 3 levels of traits
People evolve through 8 stages over the life span
Humanistic psychology was the best approach
He was the founder of bevaviorism
Who believed there are 3 levels of moral reasoning, each level can be divided into 2 stages.
Phineas Gage
Alfred Binet
Robert Sternberg
Lawrence Kohlberg
Who was Carol Gilligan
She maintained that Kolbergs work was developed only observing boys and overlooked potential differences between men and women
Believed personality is determined by genes
Thought language determines the way we think
Established the IQ test
What is the James Lange Theory
Found that specific mental talents were highly correlated
Developed the Triarchic theory of intelligence
Asserts that the perception of emotion is our awareness of our psychological response to emotion arousing stimuli
Believed in the inkblot test
What explains an emotion-arousing stimulus that triggers cognitive body responses simultaneously?
Cannon-Bard Theory
Simon Asch Theory
James Lange Theory
Clark Hull-Drive Theory
What did Lewis Terman do?
First person to have a frontal lobotomy
Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children
Studied theory of attachment in Rhesus monkeys
Found mental talents were highly correlated
Who established an intelligence test for ADULTS?
Alfred Binet
Mary Cover Jones
Benjamin Whorf
David Weschler
Who was Charles Spearman
Conducted a study on obedience
He found that specific mental talents were highly correlated, and that cognitive abilities showed a common core
Conducted the Stanford Prison experiment
Developed observational learning
Who developed the Inkblot test?
Hermann Rorschach
Hans Eysenck
Lawrence Kohlberg
E.L. Thorndike
Who DID NOT conduct the Stanford prison experiment?
Walter B. Cannon
Martin Seligman
Harry Harlow
Philip Zimbardo
Who was H. Ebbinghas?
Studied conformity
Conducted a study on obedience when he bad a subject shock a patient to the extent that they would be seriously injuring the patient
The first to conduct scientific studies on forgetting
Did a study of the activities of neurons in the visual cortex
Who studied the activity of neurons in the visual cortex?
Kurt Lewin
Hubel and Wisel
Karen Horney
Walter B. Cannon
Who said there are 3 types of color receptors in the eye?
Young and Helmholz
Walter B. Cannon
Martin Seligman
Simon Asch
What is the Clark Hull-Drive theory?
Studied theory of attachment in monkeys
Studied conformity
Studied neurons in visual cortex
Maintains that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state
What did Walter B. Cannon do?
Believed that facial expressions were universal
Believed that the gastric activity in an empty stomach was the sole basis for hunger
Believed it is possible to have preferences without inferences and to feel without knowing why
Believed people had conscious and unconscious awareness
