Theorists Flashcards
(31 cards)
Wolfgang Kohler
Learning theorist who studied chimpanzees and insight
Albert Bandura
Observational learning, Bono the clown, self efficacy, model and modeling
B.F. Skinner
Operant conditioning, shaping, operant chamber, often used rats and pigeons
Charles Spearman
General intelligence, g factor, correlations between intelligences
Roger Sperry
Split-brain research
Lewis Terman
Intelligence, 7 primary mental abilities, no g factor
Edward Thorndike
Learning, law of effect = rewarded behaviors are likely to occur again
Louis Thurstone
Intelligence, seven primary mental abilities, no g factor
Edward Tolman
Behaviorist, behavior is guided by cognitive processes
John Watson
Little Albert, fear conditioning, classical conditioning
Ernst Weber
Sensation, Weber’s Law = perceived stimulus change needs a consistent change
David Weshcler
WAIS and WISC, helpful guy
Carl Wernicke
Wernicke’s area in the left brain, language comprehension, aphasia
Benjamin Whorf
Linguistic determinism, one’s thoughts are influenced by your language
Alfred Binet
Binet-Simon scale, measures children’s mental age
Paul Broca
Broca’s area, left, speech production, damage leads to broken speech, aphasia
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Memory, forgetting curve, rehearsal, “nonsense syllables”
Gustav Fechner
Sensation, absolute threshold, just notable difference
Sigmund Freud
Dreams, unconscious mind, fucking wacko
Franz Gall
Phrenology wacko
John Garcia
Taste aversion, classical learning, coyote-sheep experiment
Robert Rescerola
Behaviorist, but he was interested in cognition, classical conditioning
Hermann Von Helmholtz
Trichromatic theory, Young-Helmholtz
Elizabeth Loftus
Misinformation effect, false memories, car crash experiment
