Famous Psychologists
Theories
Experiments/Methods
Careers
Terminology
100
Created the Social Learning Theory
Who was Albert Bandura?
100
When people learn behaviors and skills by observing their peers and people around them.
What is the social learning theory?
100
Studied how children learn behavior from adults.
What did the Bobo Doll Experiment study?
100
The integration of science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress.
What is clinical psychology?
100
This is the group that is exposed to the experiment/treatment.
What is the controlled group?
200
Focused on prison reform. She also advocated for mentally ill patients and how they were treated. Created the first mental hospital.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
200
The 5 levels of needs that a human being has:
- Phycological
- Safety
- Love
- Esteem
- Self-actualization
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
200
Studied how children coped with temptation by covering their faces. Hint: 
What is the Marshmallow Test?
200
A person who studies the internal mental processes.
What are Cognitive Psychologists?
200
The group that is left untouched too ensure accuracy in the experiment.
What is the control group?
300
Focused on the aspect of obedience. Conducted a famous shock experiment to test the extent to which people would obey orders.
Who was Stanley Milgram?
300
That behavior is a result of consequences.
What is the theory of behaviorism?
300
College students were assigned to be prisoners or prison guards to study the psychological affects of a broken prison system?
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
300
A person who studies human mental growth and development over a life time.
What are Developmental Psychologists?
300
This is the variable that is manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
400
He worked on the mental health of prisoners and prison guards.
Who was Philip Zimbardo?
400
The part of the brain that is responsible for storing long term memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
400
When someone may have a reaction solely based on psychological biases.
What is the Placebo Effect?
400
A person who studies how one's thoughts and behaviors are influenced by their surrounding environment and culture.
What are Social Psychologists?
400
This is the variable that is affected by the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
500
He studied how knowledge itself works and how people acquire it.
Who was Jean Piaget?
500
The idea that you predict that your common sense is correct, when it may not actually be accurate.
What is Hindsight Bias?
500
When neither the researchers of the participants know which participants are in the experimental group or the control group.
What is the Double-Blind Procedure?
500
A person who studies an individuals abilities, knowledge, and personality traits.
What is a Psychometric Psychologist?
500
When two variables are similar.
What is correlation?
600
He studied the way a child develops and he is known as one of the founders of American psychology.
HINT:
Who was G.Stanley Hall?
600
Humility, Skepticism, and Curiosity
What is the scientific attitude?
600
What is a controlled experiment?
600
A person who studies how children learn and grow mentally.
What is an Educational Psychologist?
600
This is when someone generalizes unrelated events together and assumes the outcome of all other instances.
What is illusory correlation?