Theorists

Question 1

Wolfgang Kohler

Answer 1

Learning theorist who studied chimpanzees and insight

Question 2

Albert Bandura

Answer 2

Observational learning, Bono the clown, self efficacy, model and modeling

Question 3

B.F. Skinner

Answer 3

Operant conditioning, shaping, operant chamber, often used rats and pigeons

Question 4

Charles Spearman

Answer 4

General intelligence, g factor, correlations between intelligences

Question 5

Roger Sperry

Answer 5

Split-brain research

Question 6

Lewis Terman

Answer 6

Intelligence, 7 primary mental abilities, no g factor

Question 7

Edward Thorndike

Answer 7

Learning, law of effect = rewarded behaviors are likely to occur again

Question 8

Louis Thurstone

Answer 8

Intelligence, seven primary mental abilities, no g factor

Question 9

Edward Tolman

Answer 9

Behaviorist, behavior is guided by cognitive processes

Question 10

John Watson

Answer 10

Little Albert, fear conditioning, classical conditioning

Question 11

Ernst Weber

Answer 11

Sensation, Weber’s Law = perceived stimulus change needs a consistent change

Question 12

David Weshcler

Answer 12

WAIS and WISC, helpful guy

Question 13

Carl Wernicke

Answer 13

Wernicke’s area in the left brain, language comprehension, aphasia

Question 14

Benjamin Whorf

Answer 14

Linguistic determinism, one’s thoughts are influenced by your language

Question 15

Alfred Binet

Answer 15

Binet-Simon scale, measures children’s mental age

Question 16

Paul Broca

Answer 16

Broca’s area, left, speech production, damage leads to broken speech, aphasia

Question 17

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Answer 17

Memory, forgetting curve, rehearsal, “nonsense syllables”

Question 18

Gustav Fechner

Answer 18

Sensation, absolute threshold, just notable difference

Question 19

Sigmund Freud

Answer 19

Dreams, unconscious mind, fucking wacko

Question 20

Franz Gall

Answer 20

Phrenology wacko

Question 21

John Garcia

Answer 21

Taste aversion, classical learning, coyote-sheep experiment

Question 22

Robert Rescerola

Answer 22

Behaviorist, but he was interested in cognition, classical conditioning

Question 23

Hermann Von Helmholtz

Answer 23

Trichromatic theory, Young-Helmholtz

Question 24

Elizabeth Loftus

Answer 24

Misinformation effect, false memories, car crash experiment

Question 25

Abraham Maslow

Answer 25

Motivation, hierarchy of needs

Question 26

Franz Anton Mesmer

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Hypnosis and animal magnetism

Question 27

Howard Gardener

Answer 27

Eight intelligences

Question 28

Howard Gardener’s eight intelligences

Answer 28

Linguistic, logical mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic

Question 29

George Miller

Answer 29

7 +/-, short term memory

Question 30

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 30

Classical conditioning, learning, dogs and bells

Question 31

Robert Sternberg

Answer 31

Three intelligences, triarchic theory