Famous People/Psychologists Flashcards

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Charles Spearman

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Creator of “g-factor”, or general intelligence, concept

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LL Thurstone

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Psychologist ; proposed that intelligence consisted of 7 different primary mental abilities

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Howard Gardner

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Best known for his theory of “multiple intelligences”

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Robert Sternberg

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Creator of “successful intelligence” theory (3 types)

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Francis Galton

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Darwin’s 2nd cousin who believed intelligence is inherited, found in level of processing, and he developed the correlational method

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Alfred Binet

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A French psychologist famous for his development of the first widely used intelligence test. He is often described as one of the most influential thinkers in psychology history and his original test still serves as the basis for modern measures of intelligence.

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Louis Terman

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He adapted the intelligence test created by Alfred Binet to fit the needs of US students. The revised test was called the Stanford-Binet test and measures IQ

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David Wechsler

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A psychologist who developed tests similar to the Stanford-Binet IQ test, aimed at both adults and children

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Carol Dweck

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A psychologist who proposed the self-theory of motivation and stated that the need for achievement is linked to personality factors

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Ivan Pavlov

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Described process of classical conditioning after famous experiments with dogs and their reflex of salivating

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Edward Tolman

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Researched rats’ use of “cognitive maps”

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John B Watson

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Early behaviourist ; famous for the “Little Albert” experiments on fear conditioning

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Albert Bandura

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His research in social learning therapy is designed to modify clients’ problematic behaviour patterns through observation and behaviour reinforcement., “Bo-Bo Doll” experiment to demonstrate how children imitate anti-social behaviour (reciprocal determinism)

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B.F. Skinner

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Pioneer of operant conditioning - believed everything we do is determined by our past history of reinforcements and punishments.

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Edward Thorndike

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An American psychologist whose experiments with cats learning to get out of puzzle boxes profoundly influenced our thinking about the importance of instrumental conditioning and the central place of animal learning experiments in psychology?

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John Garcia

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Studied taste aversion in rats ; led to knowledge that sickness and taste preferences can be conditioned

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Robert Rescorla

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Researched classical conditioning; found subjects learn the predictability of an event through trials (cognitive element)