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who is associated with the inferiority complex?

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adler

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proposed the gain-loss principle that states: an evaluation that changes will have more effect than one that remains constant

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Aronson and Linder

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developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory

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bem

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who’s empirical studies led to traveling theory of pitch perception, which supported Hemholtz’s place-resonance theory

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Bekesky

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discovered and studied instinctual drift

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Breland and breland

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investigated the role of schemata in memory and determined that memory is largely a reconstructive process

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bartlett

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who coined the term schizophrenia

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bleuler

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proposed filter theory of attention

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broadbent

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developed list of depth cues that help us perceive depth

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Berkeley

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developed social learning theory after studying observational learning
focuses on learning through social contexts

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bandura

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what is bandura’s theory of vicarious reinforcement?

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individuals can learn new behaviors by watching other people’s behaviors being reinforced

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distinguished between surface and deep structures of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one sentence into another

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chomsky

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what term did Chomsky coin

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transformational grammar

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studied ANS’s fight or flight reactions, investigated homeostasis, and proposed the cannon bard theory of emotions

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cannon

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who is credited with the first inference of the existence of synapses

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sherrington

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devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory

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collins and Loftus

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developed the levels of processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory

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craik and lockhart

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proposed that social influence and diffusion of responsibility lead to nonhelping

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Darley and Latane

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discovered that gender differences in conformity are due to differing social roles

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eagly

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studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings; developed the forgetting curve

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Ebbinghaus

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what are Eysenck’s two major dimensions of personality?

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stability and introversion

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what did Fechner do?

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quantified weber’s statement of the relationship between stimulus and sensation

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who’s existential approach to therapy center around meaningfulness?

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victor frankl

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who coined the term cognitive dissonance?

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fechner

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in Freud’s structural dynamic model of personality, what are the unconscious mechanisms that deny, falsify and distort reality?

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defense mechanisms

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what is the primary process in Freud’s structural dynamic model of personality?

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id’s response to frustration that says to obtain satisfaction now not later

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what is the secondary process in Freud’s structural dynamic model of personality?

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the ego’s mode of functioning that postpones the discharge of energy until the object that will satisfy the need is discovered or produced

ex: you think about pizza all of class, and after class you go get pizza

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what is ego psychology

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branch of psychoanalytic theory that emphasizes ego is self-governing

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what is the id

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devil on the shoulder; primary process

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what is the ego

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balance between id and superego

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what is the superego

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angel on the shoulder; morals

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who’s therapy technique uses free association, dream interpretation, analysis of transference and analysis resistance

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freud

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who put forth the idea that centers on the desire to receive dissonance between behaviors and cognitions

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festinger

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what is the cognitive dissonance theory?

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change cognitions to match behaviors

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who studied depth cues (especially texture gradients) that help us perceive depth

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gibson

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proposed multiple intelligences theory that divides intelligence into 7 types which are equally important?

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gardner

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how many of Gardner’s 7 intelligences does IQ measure?

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2

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38
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who is most closely associated with phrenology?

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gall

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who believed development was mainly due to maturation

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gesell

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what is the central tenant of the gestalt school?

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the concept of mind and other mentalistic terms are meaningless

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who studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered: simple, complex and hypercomplex cells

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hubel and weisel

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who developed the balance theory that explains why attitudes change

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heider

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who developed the attribution theory that divides attributions into dispositional and situational

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heider

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44
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what is heider’s attributional theory?

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people infer the causes of others behaviors to be situational or dispositional

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45
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studied attitude change

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hovland

46
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what is Jung associated with

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collective unconscious
introversion v extroversion
archetypes
anima and animus

47
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what does Jung’s archetype include

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persona, shadow, anima, animus

48
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what is Jung’s collective unconscious

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idea that all humans share an unconscious from our earlier ancestors

49
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who studied group decision making and group think?

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janis

50
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who developed field theory

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lewin

51
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who developed the theory of isomorphism and studied problem solving and insight

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kohler

52
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who’s experiments of chimps showed that they are capable of state-dependent learning?

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kohler

53
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who studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions by bilaterally removing the amygdala

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Kluver and Bucy

54
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who conducted a longitudinal study to examine the developmental trajectories of child temperament?

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Kagan

55
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who investigated the use of heuristics in decision making and studied the availability and representativeness heuristics

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kahneman and tversky

56
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who demonstrated that simple learning behaviors in sea snails is associated with changes in neurotransmission

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kandel

57
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what hypothesis did kandel’s study of sea slug aplysia support?

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basic changes in neural pathways occur within changes of learning and memory

58
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who developed a framework for classifying mental disorders in the 19th century, which the DSMV stemmed from?

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kraeplin

59
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who divided leadership into autocratic, democratic and laissez faire?

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Lewin

60
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what did Lewin’s study of leadership styles show

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autocratic leaders create more hostility than democratic leaders

61
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who proposed belief in a just world

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lerner

62
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what Russian neurologist studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory, motor and language functions

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luria

63
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who was an ethologist that studied unlearned instinctual behaviors in the natural environment and imprinting in birds?

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lorenz

64
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studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information by asking misleading questions

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Loftus

65
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used the water jar problem to study the effect of mental sets on problem solving

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luchens

66
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studied obedience through asking participants to administer electroshock

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milgram

67
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who proposed stimulus overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers

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milgram

68
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who’s theory of personality believes that the trait theory is based on flawed assumptions about the consistency of human behavior across situations?

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mischel

69
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who criticized personalty tests because he believed traits were less important than situational factors

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Mischel

70
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studied how psychological inoculation can help people resist persuasion

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mcguire

71
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studied anterograde amnesia in HM who’s hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed to control epilepsy

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milner

72
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proposed gate theory of pain

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melzack and wall

73
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developed TAT, which is associated with the need to achieve

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Morgan and murray

74
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what is Mcguire’s analogy of inoculation

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people can be psychologically inoculated against an argument by first exposing them to a weakened argument

75
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studied political norms

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newcomb

76
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found pleasure center in the brain by using self stimulation studies in rats

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olds and milner

77
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what is Piaget’s stage concerned with the understanding of conservation

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concrete operational

78
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what is the order of Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development?

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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, formal,

79
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who is a Canadian neurosurgeon that used electrodes and electrical stimulations to map out different parts of the brain during surgery

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penfield

80
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who developed the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion which is divided to Central and Peripheral routes

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Cacciopo & Petty

81
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developed client-centered therapy which is based on unconditional positive regard

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rogers

82
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who investigated the label of being mentally ill and had pseudo patients admitted into the mental hospital

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rosenhann

83
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believed that development can unfold without help from society

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rouseau

84
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performed experiments that showed that contiguity cannot fully explain classical conditioning, leading him to propose the contingency theory of classical conditioning

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rescorla

85
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developed a projective personality test using sentence completion

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rotter

86
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who made the triarchic theory of intelligence?

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sternberg

87
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what aspects are in Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence

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componential (performance on a test)
experiental (creativeness)
contextual (street smarts)

88
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what is spearman’s g

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individual diff in intelligence that refers to a general unitary factor of intelligence

89
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who investigated functional differences between left and right cerebral hemispheres using split brain studies?

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Sperry and Gazzaninga

90
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who formulated learned helplessness theory of depression

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seligman

91
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who was an English physiologist that first inferred that there is synaptic communication between neurons

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Sherrington

92
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developed concept of ratio IQ

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stern

93
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developed strong-cambell interest inventory that assesses interest in different lines of work

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strong and cambell

94
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refined ROC curves in signal detection theory

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Swets

95
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studied relationship between anxiety and need for affiliation

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Schacter

96
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developed steven’s power law as an alternative to Fechner’s law

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stevens

97
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conducted a longitudinal study on gifted children, and revised the Binet Simon IQ test to make it the Stanford-binet IQ test

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Terman

98
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who was an ethologist who introduced experimental methods into field situations

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Tinbergen

99
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proposed law of effect and used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats

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Thorndike

100
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performed experiment on little Albert to show that the acquiring of phobias can be due to classical conditioning

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Watson

101
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what did Watson use to study behavior

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simple observation
conditioned reflex studies
instrumental control studies
verbal reports on visceral reactions

102
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whose goal of behaviorism is to predict the response if the stimulus is known?

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Watson

103
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who believed that an analyst must serve as an object onto which hostile impulses are projected

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winnicott

104
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developed systematic desensitization to eliminate phobias

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Wolpe

105
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who developed sociobiology

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wilson

106
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who developed intelligence tests for different ages such as the WPPI, WISC, WAIS

what 3 IQ deviations do these tests yield

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weschler

verbal IQ
performance IQ
scale IQ

107
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who proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the frequency theory of pitch perception

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Wever and Bray

108
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who introduced the idea of JND

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Weber

109
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who founded the first official lab for psychology in Leipzig in 1879

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Wundt

110
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what researcher would say that their hypothesis on language would show that an adolescent raised in a culture with no word for snow would call it “white rain”

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Whorf

111
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who studied mere exposure effect

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Zajonc

112
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who solved problems with social facilitation effect by suggesting that the presence of others enhances good responses and impairs bad responses

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zajonc

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