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Famous Psychologists
Animalia
The Brain
Personality
Potpourri
100
He proposed a Hierarchy of Needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
100
This animal was conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell.
What is a dog?
100
This structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
100
This person worked to counter Freud's masculine ideas.
Who is Karen Horney?
100
This type of conditioning was studied by John Watson during his experiment with Little Albert.
What is Classical Conditioning?
200
He is most famous for his "forgetting curve".
Who is Ebbinghaus?
200
Tolman and Honzik performed experiments with these animals to study cognitive mapping.
What are mice/rats?
200
This part of the brain is responsible for processing and encoding memories.
What is the hippocampus?
200
According to Freud, our personality structure is made up of which three parts?
What are the id, ego, and superego?
200
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions.
What is functional fixedness?
300
This man proposed the theory of Universal Grammar with the idea that given adequate nurture, language will naturally occur.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
300
These animals were able to operate a vending machine with nuts and coins.
What are crows?
300
Examples of these include Acetylcholine, Dopamine, and GABA.
What are Neurotransmitters?
300
This is a defense mechanism where people return to coping strategies from earlier stages of development.
What is Regression?
300
These have been described as Hallucinations of the sleeping mind.
What are DREAMS?
400
He is famous for his studies on Observational Learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
400
She is a gorilla who knows over 1000 signs and is able to use them to communicate with other humans and gorillas.
Who is Koko?
400
The ability of the brain to change or adapt in response to an experience. This could be a response to a structural or chemical change.
What is Neuroplasticity?
400
Parapraxes are another name for this.
What are "slips of the tongue" or "Freudian slips"?
400
An simplified language created in the late 1800s with no irregular verbs, no grammatical gender, and phonetic pronunciations.
What is Esperanto?
500
Back in the 1500s and 1600s, these two men were at the center of the Nature vs. Nurture debate.
Who are John Locke and Thomas Hobbes?
500
Many believed that this horse was able to understand arithmetic and German, but in reality was relying on cues from the audience.
Who is Clever Hans?
500
This is "Head of the Endocrine System".
What is the Pituitary Gland?
500
This man took an analytic approach to Personality by having his students analyze symmetrical inkblots. Spell his name correctly.
Who is R-O-R-S-C-H-A-C-H?
500
The division of the world into two parts is known as....
What is Dualism?