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| 9601515351 | Noam Chomsky | Who theorized that language development is innate through the Language Acquisitional Device and Transformational grammar? | 0 | |
| 9601515352 | Benjamin Whorf | Theorized that language can influence thought, and cognition can influence language... | 1 | |
| 9601515353 | Ernest Hilgard | Who proposed a theory that hypnosis works by splitting the mind - one part obeying the hypnotist and the other is silently observing? | 2 | |
| 9601515354 | Aserinsky and Kleitman | Who discovered the rapid eye movement involved in REM sleep? | 3 | |
| 9601515355 | William Dement | Who studied the effects of sleep deprivation of REM sleep? | 4 | |
| 9601515356 | Jean Piaget | Which of the following created a stage theory that details the cognitive development of humans? | 5 | |
| 9601515357 | Lev Vygotsky | Who stressed social factors as critical to the cognitive developmental process (as opposed to biological maturation) and believed much of development occurs by internationalization and the concept of a zone of proximal development? | 6 | |
| 9601515358 | Erik Erikson | Which of the following developed the Psychosocial Stage Theory that was the first to focus on development as an entire life-span process? | 7 | |
| 9601515359 | Harry Harlow | Which of the following did research with monkeys in the 1950s and discovered "contact comfort?" | 8 | |
| 9601515360 | John Bowlby | Which of the following is known as the father of attachment theory and pioneered the psychoanalytic view that early experiences in childhood have an important influence on development and behavior later in life? | 9 | |
| 9601515361 | Mary Ainsworth | Which of the following believed attachment is shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation when placed in "strange situations?" | 10 | |
| 9601515362 | Konrad Lorenz | Which of the following stressed that animal attachment is formed during a critical period VERY early in life by something biologically called imprinting? | 11 | |
| 9601515363 | Diana Baumrind | Which of the following did research in parenting styles since parent's interaction with their children definitely has an influence on the way we develop? | 12 | |
| 9601515364 | Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | Which of the following developed five discrete stages or process by which people deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or catastrophic loss? | 13 | |
| 9601515365 | Lawrence Kohlberg | Which of the following described how our ability to reason about ethical situations changed over our lives by asking children, adolescents, and adults about a specific moral dilemma - the Heinz dilemma - and analyzed their answers for evidence of stages of moral thinking? | 14 | |
| 9601515366 | Carol Gilligan | Which of the following was a critic of Kohlberg's and theorized that his assumptions that boys and girls come to moral conclusions in the same way is incorrect? | 15 | |
| 9601515367 | William James | Who developed a theory of emotion that has the physiological response first and your emotion is based on our awareness of the body's response? | 16 | |
| 9601515368 | Walter Cannon | Who developed a theory of emotion that has the physiological response and the cognitive awareness (emotion) occurring simultaneously after exposed to an event? | 17 | |
| 9601515369 | Stanley Schachter | Who developed a theory of emotion that stresses that both our physical responses and our cognitive labels (our mental interpretations) combine to cause any particular emotional response? | 18 | |
| 9601515370 | Paul Ekman | Who surveyed many different cultures and discovered there are six main emotions that are innate to humans? | 19 | |
| 9601515371 | Hans Seyle | Who did research on stress and came up with GAS? | 20 | |
| 9601515372 | Richard Lazarus | Who developed a cognitive theory that stress is minimized or maximized by the individual's ability to respond to the stressor? | 21 | |
| 9601515373 | Simon Binet | Who created the first useful intelligence test? | 22 | |
| 9601515374 | David Weschler | Who created the intelligence tests that are most used today to assess intelligence? | 23 | |
| 9601515375 | Charles Spearman | Who developed the Psychometric Approach or Two-Factor theory of intelligence that basically has general mental capacity expressed by a single intelligence score? | 24 | |
| 9601515376 | L.L. Thurstone | Who developed the Primary Mental Abilities theory for intelligence that identified 7 clusters of primary mental abilities? | 25 | |
| 9601515377 | Howard Gardner | Who developed the intelligence theory that focuses on eight independent (multiple) intelligences? | 26 | |
| 9601515378 | Robert Sternberg | Who developed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence? | 27 | |
| 9601515379 | Daniel Goleman | Who developed the Emotional Intelligence concept? | 28 | |
| 9601515380 | Ivan Pavlov | What Russian scientists stumbled upon classical conditioning and set up the first experiment on it? | 29 | |
| 9601515381 | Robert Rescorla | Who is the main proponent of the Contingency approach for why classical conditioning works? | 30 | |
| 9601515382 | John Watson | Which Behaviorist conducted the Baby Albert experiments with classical conditioning? | 31 | |
| 9601515383 | John Garcia | The other name for CTA (conditioned taste aversion) that is also described as an aversion or distaste for a particular taste or smell that was associated with a negative reaction (such as nausea or vomiting) is named after who? | 32 | |
| 9601515384 | Albert Bandura | Who was instrumental in the study of observational learning/modeling? | 33 | |
| 9601515385 | Edward Tolman | Who is known for his work with latent learning and cognitive maps? | 34 | |
| 9601515386 | Wolfgang Kohler | Who is known for his work with insight learning with his experiment with chimpanzees and bananas? | 35 | |
| 9601515387 | Donald Hebb | Who proposed that human learning takes place by neurons forming new connections with one another or by the strengthening of connections that already exist? | 36 | |
| 9601515388 | Eric Kandel | Who was the neuroscientist that helped discover neuromodulators by classical conditioning sea slug aplysia? | 37 | |
| 9601515389 | Edward Thorndike | Who proposed the "Law of Effect?" | 38 | |
| 9601515390 | B.F. Skinner | Radical Behaviorist instrumental in operant conditioning thanks to his "box."... | 39 | |
| 9601515391 | Martin Seligman | Who is known for his work on the theory of learned helplessness and writes self-help books and focused on Positive Psychology? | 40 | |
| 9601515392 | Hermann Ebbinghaus | German psychologist (1850-1909) who pioneered the study of memory (taught new material, so that he knew exactly what someone had learned and when, and then measured memory after various days)... | 41 | |
| 9601515393 | George Sperling | Who presented participants with a matrix of three rows of four letters each just milliseconds and asked them to recall parts which showed the capacity for iconic memory is quite large but the duration is incredibly short? | 42 | |
| 9601515394 | George Miller | Who did work with short-term memory that basically showed it is temporary storage of recent events and is primarily acoustically coded? | 43 | |
| 9601515395 | Hermann Ebbinghaus | Who proposed the "Decay Theory?" | 44 | |
| 9601515396 | Henry Murray | Who believed that, although motivation is rooted in biology, individual differences and varying environments can cause motivations and needs to be expressed in many different ways and proposed that human needs can be broken down into 20 specific types? | 45 | |
| 9601515397 | Kurt Lewin | Who created four major types of motivational conflicts (approach/approach; avoidance/avoidance; approach/avoidance; and multiple approach/avoidance)? | 46 | |
| 9601515398 | Abrahman Maslow | Who created a hierarchy of needs to help explain motivation? | 47 | |
| 9601515399 | Sigmund Freud | Who is known as the Father of Psychoanalytic, whose view of personality structure focuses around the id, ego, and superego and how they interact as well as the Psychosexual stages? | 48 | |
| 9601515400 | Alfred Adler | Who theorized that personality is determined by how children cope with feelings of inferiority and an inability to cope could ultimately develop an inferiority complex? | 49 | |
| 9601515401 | Karen Horney | Who believed that basic anxiety (or how well someone deals with it) is what forms the basis for adult personality? | 50 | |
| 9601515402 | Carl Jung | Who theorized that personality is determined by maintaining a balanced "Self" amongst opposing forces in your mind while also possessing a collective unconsciousness? | 51 | |
| 9601515403 | Carl Rogers | Who theorized that personality development comes from a person's self-concept and their opinion of their condition of worth and that a child should be given unconditional positive regard in order to form a positive condition of worth? | 52 | |
| 9601515404 | Albert Bandura | Who theorized that our concept of self-efficacy and explanatory styles are central to personality development? | 53 | |
| 9601515405 | Julian Rotter | Who theorized that the extent to which people believe that their successes or failures are due to their own efforts plays a major role in personality development? | 54 | |
| 9601515406 | Mary Rothbart | Who created a three scale assessment to measure temperament? | 55 | |
| 9601515407 | Walter Mischel | Who recognized that traits are not necessarily consistent across various situations but often vary depending upon the circumstances? | 56 | |
| 9601515408 | Raymond Cattell | Who proposed that 16 source traits (underlying characteristics) were the basis of personality? | 57 | |
| 9601515409 | Gordan Allport | Who proposed that personality traits fall under three categories: cardinal, central, and secondary? | 58 | |
| 9601515410 | John Locke | Which Enlightened thinker was a firm believer in the "nurture" side of the debate "nature vs. nurture" due to his tabula rasa mentality? | 59 | |
| 9601515411 | Wilhelm Wundt | Who created the first Psychology lab and worked with "introspection?" | 60 | |
| 9601515412 | William James | Who is known as the father of American Psychology? | 61 | |
| 9601515413 | Young-Helmholtz | The Trichromatic theory of color vision can also be referred to as the ____ Theory named after its founders? | 62 | |
| 9601515414 | Irving Janis | Which of the following coined the phrase and concept of "groupthink?" | 63 | |
| 9601515415 | Philip Zimbardo | Which of the following conducted a social psychology experiment at Stanford University called the Prison Study which focused on deindividualization? | 64 | |
| 9601515416 | Solomon Asch | Who conducted a series of experiments on conformity? | 65 | |
| 9601515417 | Stanley Milgram | Who conducted a series of experiments on obedience? | 66 | |
| 9601515418 | Carl Rogers | Who developed Client-centered therapy? | 67 | |
| 9601515419 | Fritz Perls | Gestalt Therapy was developed by... | 68 | |
| 9601515420 | Joseph Wolpe | Who first developed systematic desensitization? | 69 | |
| 9601515421 | Albert Ellis | Who developed Rational-Emotive Behavior therapy? | 70 | |
| 9601515422 | Aaron Beck | Who developed Cognitive Therapy? | 71 |
