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Psychologists and Their Contributions (1-5, 16-20, 31-35, 46-50)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Frances Galton

a)

Believed that childhood social tensions are crucial for personality formation

b)

Maintained that personality and ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance

c)

Theory of evolution

d)

Founder of behaviorism

2.

Which psychologist believed in the theory of evolution/survival of the fittest?

a)

Alfred Adler

b)

Albert Ellis

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Gordon Allport

3.

What did William Wundt believe?

a)

Introspection psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience

b)

Humans have an inborn native ability to develop language

4.

What WASN'T John Watson the founder of?

a)

Operant conditioning

b)

Humanistic Psychology

c)

Psychoanalysis

d)

Behaviorism

5.

Who was Little Albert?

a)

Participated in Watson's study of fear, conditioning the subject to be afraid

b)

Believed people evolved through 8 stages of life

c)

Said there are 3 types of receptors in the eye

d)

Believed in id-ego-superego

6.

What did Erik Erikson believe

a)

People have 3 levels of traits

b)

People evolve through 8 stages over the life span

c)

Humanistic psychology was the best approach

d)

He was the founder of bevaviorism

7.

Who believed there are 3 levels of moral reasoning, each level can be divided into 2 stages.

a)

Phineas Gage

b)

Alfred Binet

c)

Robert Sternberg

d)

Lawrence Kohlberg

8.

Who was Carol Gilligan

a)

She maintained that Kolbergs work was developed only observing boys and overlooked potential differences between men and women

b)

Believed personality is determined by genes

c)

Thought language determines the way we think

d)

Established the IQ test

9.

What is the James Lange Theory

a)

Found that specific mental talents were highly correlated

b)

Developed the Triarchic theory of intelligence

c)

Asserts that the perception of emotion is our awareness of our psychological response to emotion arousing stimuli

d)

Believed in the inkblot test

10.

What explains an emotion-arousing stimulus that triggers cognitive body responses simultaneously?

a)

Cannon-Bard Theory

b)

Simon Asch Theory

c)

James Lange Theory

d)

Clark Hull-Drive Theory

11.

What did Lewis Terman do?

a)

First person to have a frontal lobotomy

b)

Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children

c)

Studied theory of attachment in Rhesus monkeys

d)

Found mental talents were highly correlated

12.

Who established an intelligence test for ADULTS?

a)

Alfred Binet

b)

Mary Cover Jones

c)

Benjamin Whorf

d)

David Weschler

13.

Who was Charles Spearman

a)

Conducted a study on obedience

b)

He found that specific mental talents were highly correlated, and that cognitive abilities showed a common core

c)

Conducted the Stanford Prison experiment

d)

Developed observational learning

14.

Who developed the Inkblot test?

a)

Hermann Rorschach

b)

Hans Eysenck

c)

Lawrence Kohlberg

d)

E.L. Thorndike

15.

Who DID NOT conduct the Stanford prison experiment?

a)

Walter B. Cannon

b)

Martin Seligman

c)

Harry Harlow

d)

Philip Zimbardo

16.

Who was H. Ebbinghas?

a)

Studied conformity

b)

Conducted a study on obedience when he bad a subject shock a patient to the extent that they would be seriously injuring the patient

c)

The first to conduct scientific studies on forgetting

d)

Did a study of the activities of neurons in the visual cortex

17.

Who studied the activity of neurons in the visual cortex?

a)

Kurt Lewin

b)

Hubel and Wisel

c)

Karen Horney

d)

Walter B. Cannon

18.

Who said there are 3 types of color receptors in the eye?

a)

Young and Helmholz

b)

Walter B. Cannon

c)

Martin Seligman

d)

Simon Asch

19.

What is the Clark Hull-Drive theory?

a)

Studied theory of attachment in monkeys

b)

Studied conformity

c)

Studied neurons in visual cortex

d)

Maintains that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state

20.

What did Walter B. Cannon do?

a)

Believed that facial expressions were universal

b)

Believed that the gastric activity in an empty stomach was the sole basis for hunger

c)

Believed it is possible to have preferences without inferences and to feel without knowing why

d)

Believed people had conscious and unconscious awareness