Exam 2(people)

Question 1

A functional psychologist, believed that Functional Psychology was not a whole school of psychology but instead just a point of view.
Drew a sharp contrast between functional and structural psychologies. Structuralist= the what? of conscious experience. Functionalist= the how and why of consciousness

Answer 1

James R. Angell

Question 2

Founded the first school of psychology in Canada. His, mostly anecdotal, research on child development would influence Jean Piaget. Has an “effect” named after him- He proposed that a form of general learning ability, especially social learning could be selected for by natural selection

Answer 2

James Mark Baldwin

Question 3

He was tasked with finding a way to decide which grade to put french children in as they were coming to school. He created a new method of intelligence testing. Tell me what you’re looking for and I’ll tell you what you’ll find

Answer 3

Alfred Binet

Question 4

He has a reputation for applying psychological principles to business. The first ever Professor of Applied Psychology. He also helped create the Army General Classification test for WWII. Promoted industrial psychology

Answer 4

Walter Van Dyke Bingham

Question 5

One of the first women to formally study psychology, created paired-associated learning. First female president of the APA

Answer 5

Mary Whiton Calkins

Question 6

This man made maze learning a sort of standardize test. He invented his own type of maze in which every mae had a different solution but the same amount of turns and dead ends, and the length of the turns and dead ends were the same

Answer 6

Harvey Carr

Question 7

Helped with developing mental tests and admired Galton a lot. He believed in legitimizing Psychology as a science. Bought the rights to the scientific journal, Science, and started the Psychological Corporation

Answer 7

James McKeen Catell

Question 8

The man credited with the discovery of the Theory of Evolution

Answer 8

Charles Darwin

Question 9

Known for his work with the reflex arc. He also helped with educational reforms in America. He launched a movement known as progressive learning

Answer 9

John Dewey

Question 10

This man studied intelligence, he believed it was innate and inherited from parents. This lead him to study eminence, test intelligence, propose eugenics and create both word association tests and twin studies

Answer 10

Francis Galton

Question 11

A female psychology trailblazer known for her work with ergonomics

Answer 11

Lillian Gilbreth

Question 12

The man known for the Kalikak anecdote, he took Binet’s test and concept of mental age to classify developmentally slowed children. His work would support the sterilization of the white and poor, and all racial minorities. Then he made a school for gifted children and that’s all anyone remembers him for

Answer 12

Henry H. Goddard

Question 13

Most of his work can be classified as early genetic psychology

Answer 13

G. Stanley Hall

Question 14

Darwin’s mentor. He was a reverend an professor f botany. He referred Darwin to the captain of The Beagle

Answer 14

John Henslow

Question 15

A woman who advocated for gifted children and debunked Myths about women. She designed a course expecially for gifted childre , it is thought to be the first course She created the first textbook too

Answer 15

Leta Hollingworth

Question 16

Best known for his work with Coca Cola to prove that the amount of caffeine in coke was not enough to cause any damage to the human body

Answer 16

Harry Hollingworth

Question 17

He bridged the gap between mental philosophy and modern laboratory based psychology. His main contribution came in the form of textbooks. His best known book is Elements of Physiological Psychology

Answer 17

George Trumbull Ladd

Question 18

Known for her work as a mathematician, and a expert on visual perception, writing about such things as binocular vision, and a theory on color vision

Answer 18

Christine Ladd-Franklin

Question 19

A noted columnist that ridiculed the likes of Thorndike, Goddard and Yerkes, arguing that they could not measure innate intelligence because they hadn’t defined it yet. He worried that these 50-minute test would damn a child for the rest of their life

Answer 19

Walter Lippmann

Question 20

This man pointed out that while the growth rate of food is steadily increasing, population if unchecked will quickly surpass that amount of food available. Then only those best suited to survive would do so

Answer 20

Thomas Malthus

Question 21

He is known today for arguing that descriptions for animal behavior should be no less complex than observational evidence allows

Answer 21

C. Lloyd Morgan

Question 22

This man showed how psychological methods could help select workers. Hew as asked by the Boston Elevated Railway company to develop a way to distiguish between competent and accident prone drivers.

Answer 22

Hugo Munsterberg

Question 23

a follower of Galton that was a mathematician whose name is associated with the most common expression of the correlation coefficient.

Answer 23

Karl Pearson

Question 24

Wrote Animal Intelligence which earned him the title of Founder of Comparative Psychology. Most of his work was anecdotal evidence but he did take care to include reliable reports of behavior in his book. The book also tends towards anthropomorphism .

Answer 24

George Romanes

Question 25

This German man created the Intelligence Quotient. He also created the term psychotechnics and invented several memory tests that can used to assess eyewitness memory.

Answer 25

William Stern

Question 26

He is known as the first black person to get a PhD in Psychology. He then went on to teach at Howard University, creating the most prestigious psychology program in a black college, allowing for students to earn a bachelor, master degree.

Answer 26

Francis Sumner

Question 27

This man created the Stanford-Binet Test, studied gifted children in the world’s longest longitudinal study

Answer 27

Lewis M Terman

Question 28

This man studied animal intelligence by putting chicks in mazes, and cats in boxes to see how long it took them to get free.

Answer 28

Edward L Thorndike

Question 29

He established structuralism, promoted an experimental/laboratory approach to psychology, identified introspection as psychology’s primary method, defined the main elements of conscious experience

Answer 29

E.B. Titchner

Question 30

The other guy who discovered Evolution but lost his data in a ship wreck

Answer 30

Wallace

Question 31

The first woman to receive a doctorate in psychology.

Answer 31

Margaret Floy Washburn

Question 32

Remembered for his research on transfer with Thorndike, which called traditional education practices into question. His Columbia “bible” institutionalized the distinctions between experimental and correlational research and between independent and dependent variables.

Answer 32

Robert S Woodworth

Question 33

A comparative psychologist at heart this man became involved with mental testing in WWI by organizing the Army testing program. Created the Army Alpha and Beta. His report from the test would question how much intelligence resulted from nature and nurture.

Answer 33

Robert Yerkes

Question 34

He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ. Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance and intelligence were discredited after evidence emerged indicating he had falsified research data, inventing correlations in separated twins which did not exist.

Answer 34

Burt

Question 35

Wrote the Principles of psychology, he first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labeled him the “Father of American psychology”.

Answer 35

William James

Question 36

The doctor who figured out the trick behind Clever Hans

Answer 36

Carl Pfungst

Question 37

He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. Also gave the theory of human variance around the average, with human traits being distributed according to a normal curve, he proposed that normal variation provided a basis for the idea that populations produce sufficient variation for artificial or natural selection to operate

Answer 37

Quetelet

Question 38

British psychologist who theorized that a general factor of intelligence, g, is present in varying degrees in different human abilities.

Answer 38

Charles E Spearman