Psychology 290 theorists - athabasca
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Charles Darwin - Correct AnswerTheory of natural selection & evolution
Sigmund Freud - Correct AnswerPsychoanalysis
G. Stanley Hall - Correct AnswerDeveloped APA, worked with Wundt
Donald Hebb - Correct AnswerNeuropsychologist
William James - Correct AnswerFunctionalist
Carl Rogers - Correct AnswerHumanist
Martin Seligman - Correct AnswerPositive Psychologist
B.F. Skinner - Correct AnswerRadial Behaviourist
John B Watson - Correct AnswerBehaviourist
Wilhem Wundt - Correct AnswerFounder of psychology
Alfred Binet - Correct AnswerMeasured intelligence first as "Mental Age" on the Binet
scale
James Flynn - Correct AnswerTheorized that people are getting smarter on IQ scale.
This is called the Flynn Effect.
Sir Francis Galton - Correct AnswerWanted to prove that intelligence is inherited
Developed percentile scores
Howard Gardner - Correct AnswerThere is more than 1 way to be intelligent.
He made 8 categories of intelligence
Arthur Jensen - Correct AnswerRacist - made comments regarding cultural difference in
intelligence is due to heredity
Sandra Scarr - Correct AnswerProposed reaction range theory
Claude Steele - Correct AnswerArgued that stereotypes increase vulnerability and
uncertainty
, Robert Sternberg - Correct AnswerFocus on how people USE their intelligence
Contextual, experiential, and componential
Lewis Terman - Correct AnswerRivised Binet scale to be Stanford-Binet scale
David Weschler - Correct AnswerMade IQ scoring of Stanford-Binet test
John Atkinson - Correct AnswerAchievement depends on motivation, probability, and
incentive
David Buss - Correct AnswerConducted a study concluding what men and women want
in partners (toot toot)
James- Lange theory - Correct AnswerEmotions happen after ANS stimulation
Cannon-Bard theory - Correct AnswerWe feel emotions while, SIMULTANEOUSLY, the
ANS is stimulated
Schechter's Two-Factor Theory - Correct AnswerWe use reasoning to make sense of
how we feel
Evolutionary Theory - Correct AnswerEmotions happen because they serve an
evolutionary purpose
John Bowlby - Correct AnswerAdults are pre-programmed to love babies so we protect
them
Erik Erikson - Correct AnswerTheory of social relationships
1. trust vs mistrust ect.....
Jean Piaget - Correct Answer4 stages of cognitive operations
1. Semsorimotor 0-2
2. Preoperational 2-7
3. Concrete operational 7-11
4. Formal operational 12+
Lawrence Kohlberg - Correct AnswerTheory of moral reasoning
1. Preconventional (punishment & reward)
2. Conventional (good boy & authority)
3. Post conventional (what society says & what I say)
Vygotsky - Correct AnswerChildren learn by watching - ZPD
Alfred Adler - Correct AnswerThought Freud too sexual - be believed people strived for
superiority
university with 100% correc answers
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Charles Darwin - Correct AnswerTheory of natural selection & evolution
Sigmund Freud - Correct AnswerPsychoanalysis
G. Stanley Hall - Correct AnswerDeveloped APA, worked with Wundt
Donald Hebb - Correct AnswerNeuropsychologist
William James - Correct AnswerFunctionalist
Carl Rogers - Correct AnswerHumanist
Martin Seligman - Correct AnswerPositive Psychologist
B.F. Skinner - Correct AnswerRadial Behaviourist
John B Watson - Correct AnswerBehaviourist
Wilhem Wundt - Correct AnswerFounder of psychology
Alfred Binet - Correct AnswerMeasured intelligence first as "Mental Age" on the Binet
scale
James Flynn - Correct AnswerTheorized that people are getting smarter on IQ scale.
This is called the Flynn Effect.
Sir Francis Galton - Correct AnswerWanted to prove that intelligence is inherited
Developed percentile scores
Howard Gardner - Correct AnswerThere is more than 1 way to be intelligent.
He made 8 categories of intelligence
Arthur Jensen - Correct AnswerRacist - made comments regarding cultural difference in
intelligence is due to heredity
Sandra Scarr - Correct AnswerProposed reaction range theory
Claude Steele - Correct AnswerArgued that stereotypes increase vulnerability and
uncertainty
, Robert Sternberg - Correct AnswerFocus on how people USE their intelligence
Contextual, experiential, and componential
Lewis Terman - Correct AnswerRivised Binet scale to be Stanford-Binet scale
David Weschler - Correct AnswerMade IQ scoring of Stanford-Binet test
John Atkinson - Correct AnswerAchievement depends on motivation, probability, and
incentive
David Buss - Correct AnswerConducted a study concluding what men and women want
in partners (toot toot)
James- Lange theory - Correct AnswerEmotions happen after ANS stimulation
Cannon-Bard theory - Correct AnswerWe feel emotions while, SIMULTANEOUSLY, the
ANS is stimulated
Schechter's Two-Factor Theory - Correct AnswerWe use reasoning to make sense of
how we feel
Evolutionary Theory - Correct AnswerEmotions happen because they serve an
evolutionary purpose
John Bowlby - Correct AnswerAdults are pre-programmed to love babies so we protect
them
Erik Erikson - Correct AnswerTheory of social relationships
1. trust vs mistrust ect.....
Jean Piaget - Correct Answer4 stages of cognitive operations
1. Semsorimotor 0-2
2. Preoperational 2-7
3. Concrete operational 7-11
4. Formal operational 12+
Lawrence Kohlberg - Correct AnswerTheory of moral reasoning
1. Preconventional (punishment & reward)
2. Conventional (good boy & authority)
3. Post conventional (what society says & what I say)
Vygotsky - Correct AnswerChildren learn by watching - ZPD
Alfred Adler - Correct AnswerThought Freud too sexual - be believed people strived for
superiority
