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Who's Who in Psychology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Psychologist who wrote the first textbook, "Principles of Psychology"

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

William James

c)

Wilhelm Wundt

d)

Dorothea Dix

2.

Russian physiologist who pioneered learning through the discovery of principles of classical conditioning

a)

Jean Piaget

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Kohlberg

d)

John B. Watson

3.

Scientist who came up with the Theory of Evolution

a)

William James

b)

Carl Rogers

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Sigmund Freud

4.

American activist who worked to help create humane mental institutions for the mentally ill and indigent poor

a)

Mary Whiton Calkins

b)

Francis Galton

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Rosie the Riveter

5.

Founder of the psychoanalytic approach

a)

John Watson

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

William James

6.

won a Nobel Prize for work in brain specialization

a)

Roger Sperry

b)

Carl Wernicke

c)

Francis Galton

d)

Paul Broca

7.

Use classical conditioning to train a baby to fear

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

John Watson

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

B.F. Skinner

8.

Discovered the left frontal lobe area responsible for speech

a)

Roger Sperry

b)

Paul Broca

c)

Carl Wernicke

d)

Michael Gazzaniga

9.

Founded the first psychological lab in Germany

a)

William James

b)

Wilhelm Wundt

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Albert Einstein

10.

First woman to earn a PhD in psychology

a)

Mary Whiton Calkins

b)

Margaret Floy Washburn

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Margaret Simpson

11.

Worked in the field of hypnosis and pain control; theory of the so-called "hidden observer" is created in the mind while hypnosis is taking place

a)

John Garcia

b)

Gustav Fechner

c)

Ernest Higard

d)

David Hubel

12.

dubbed the term "just noticeable difference" (jnd) as a ration of stimuli and intensity for _______ Law

a)

Ernst Weber

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Torsten Wiesel

d)

Ivan Pavlov

13.

Proposed that consciousness is not episodic but an ongoing stream of mentl activity

a)

William James

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Ernest Hilgard

d)

Robert Rescorla

14.

German Neurologist who discovered left temporal lobe area responsible for comprehension of verbal and written language

a)

Carl Wernicke

b)

Roger Sperry

c)

Pierre Broca

d)

Charles Darwin

15.

Eugenicist, worked in the area of intelligence, coined the phrase "nature vs nurture", standard deviation, and developed the method for classifying fingerprints

a)

Francis Galton

b)

Alfred Binet

c)

Howard Gardner

d)

Carl Jung

16.

American psychologist discovered tastes aversions as a means of learning through conditioning

a)

John Garcia

b)

Robert Rescorla

c)

Albert Bandura

d)

Ivan Pavlov

17.

Bobo Doll experiment--observational learning/modeling

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

Robert Rescorla

d)

Edward Tolman

18.

Said that one must satisfy the basic needs before self-actualization can occur

a)

Carl Jung

b)

Abraham Maslow

c)

Pop Warner

d)

Alfred Kinsey

19.

Behaviorist developed model of learning through Operant Conditioning

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

B.F. Skinner

c)

Edward Thorndike

d)

John B. Watson

20.

Brought scientific psychology to the USA; established the first 4 labs in the US and was the first president of the APA

a)

William James

b)

G. Stanley Hall

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Mary Whiton Calkins