Psychology Famous Names

5 Written Questions

1. Sex researchers: Described the sexual response cycle
2. Cognitive psychologist; Latent Learning & cognitive maps in rats
3. Behaviorist; 1st studies on animal learning (cats and the puzzle box); Law of Effect
4. Language theorist; Universal Grammar Theory (born to learn grammar)
5. Neo-Freudian; Psychosocial Stages of Development

5 Matching Questions

1. Harry Harlow
2. Wolfgang Kohler
3. Elaine Hatfield
4. Stanley Milgram
5. Julian Rotter

1. a Demonstrated "insight" in chimps when Sultan used tools to solve a problem
2. b Studied attraction and love
3. c Cognitive theorist; Studied Locus of Control
4. d Attachment/body contact studies in baby monkeys
5. e Obedience studies using "shock"

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Memory researcher; Used "nonsense syllables"; Described the learning and forgetting curves
   1. Hermann Ebbinghaus
   2. Leon Festinger
   3. Hans Eysenck
   4. Martin Seligman
2. General Intelligence or "g" underlies IQ. If you are intelligent in one area, you are probably smart in others.
   1. George Sperling
   2. Charles Spearman
   3. Stanley Milgram
   4. Carl Rogers
3. Social Psychologist; Did the "Stanford Prison Study" on role-playing
   1. William Sheldon
   2. Ernest Hilgard
   3. Phillip Zimbardo
   4. William James
4. Studied gifted kids; Revised Simon-Binet to the Stanford-Binet IQ test
   1. Edward Tolman
   2. Lewis Terman
   3. Simon LeVay
   4. Ewald Hering
5. Cognitive Dissonance Theory
   1. Lewis Terman
   2. Ernest Hilgard
   3. Leon Festinger
   4. B. F. Skinner

5 True/False Questions

1. Chess & Thomas → Studied depth perception using the "visual cliff"

   True        False

2. William James → Groupthink

   True        False

3. Jean Piaget → Stages of Cognitive Development

   True        False

4. Albert Bandura → Triarchic Theory of Intelligence: analytical, practical, and creative intelligence

   True        False

5. Hubel & Weisel → Nobel Prize for "feature detection" in vision

   True        False