History

Question 1

Founder of object relations therapy (focus on interpersonal relationships)

Answer 1

Melanie Klein

Question 2

Who believed that women’s issues emerge from sociocultural gender inequalities

Answer 2

Karen Horney

Question 3

Who thought that behaviour is a function of the individual’s environment?

Answer 3

Kurt Lewin

Question 4

Founder of child psychoanalysis

Answer 4

Anna Freud

Question 5

Whose research focused on the importance of social interaction in learning and development?

Answer 5

Lev Vygotsky

Question 6

Who was one of the founders of the trait perspective of psychology?

Answer 6

Gordon Allport

Question 7

America’s first African American female psychologist

Answer 7

Inez Beverly Prosser

Question 8

Who said “what fires together, wires together”

Answer 8

Donald Hebb

Question 9

Who refined Allport’s traits and determined that there were 16 essential personality factors

Answer 9

Raymond Cattell

Question 10

Person behind the two wire mother experiment with primates

Answer 10

Harry Harlow

Question 11

Introduced European existential philosophical and psychological principles to American audiences AND focused on the importance of anxiety as part of the human condition as well as the importance of creating meaning out of experience

Answer 11

Rollo May

Question 12

Husband and wife behind the famous doll study that investigated children’s views about race

Answer 12

Kenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark

Question 13

Who was known for her work on gender development and sex differences?

Answer 13

Eleanor Maccoby

Question 14

Who developed the need theory (motivation in terms of a need for affiliation, power, or achievement)

Answer 14

David McClelland

Question 15

Who was behind social comparison theory and cognitive dissonance?

Answer 15

Leon Festinger

Question 16

Who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology who is also behind the paper: “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two?”

Answer 16

George A. Miller

Question 17

Who conducted research into delayed gratification with his groundbreaking study the “Marshmallow Test?”

Answer 17

Walter Mischel

Question 18

Who is known for the visual cliff experiment (depth perception is innate)?

Answer 18

Eleanor Gibson

Question 19

Who is the feminist psychologist that outlined a theory that women’s development happens through relationship and care?

Answer 19

Carol Gilligan

Question 20

Which psychologist is best known for their work on multiculturalism, cross-cultural counselling, and microaggressions?

Answer 20

Derald Wing Sue

Question 21

Founder of positive psychology and conducted research on learned helplessness

Answer 21

Martin Seligman

Question 22

Who is best known for her work in gender studies that includes developing the gender schema theory and researching androgyny?

Answer 22

Sandra Bem

Question 23

Who is the evolutionary psychologist known for their work on mating strategies in women and men, and how jealousy and other challenging experiences can be adaptive?

Answer 23

David Buss

Question 24

Who is the founder of attachment theory?

Answer 24

John Bowlby

Question 25

Who developed the strange situation paradigm?

Answer 25

Mary Ainsworth