Famous Phychologists

Question 1

James Olds

Answer 1

Stimulation of rat’s brain, rat pressed the lever and would receive stimulation. The rat continued to press the lever as a result

Question 2

B.F. Skinner

Answer 2

Used his Skinner box to observe animals react to stimuli. He proved that everything that we do, we do in order to receive feedback

Question 3

Harry Harlow

Answer 3

Developed the theory of contact comfort by separating baby monkey from their mother at birth. Placed the baby monkeys with a doll mom and the baby responded as if it were its mother.

Question 4

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 4

Developed the theory of classical conditioning when he trained dogs to believe a sound of a bell meant food, and as a result the dogs would salivate.

Question 5

Edward C. Tolman

Answer 5

Developed the theory of latent learning and mental maps.. He had 3 groups of mice in a maze. Each time they completed the maze they were rewarded or were not rewarded. It proved that the mice were learning the maze.