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1. Know Your Psychologists

2. _____ developed the general adaptation syndrome (GAS) which is a three phase process of dealing with stress. Hans Selye
3. _____ stressed the importance of observation and imitation in learning and proposed a more social-learning approach. Albert Bandura
4. ______ founded the school of Behaviorism. John B. Watson
5. In 1905, ____, with Theodore Simon devised the first modern IQ test. Alfred Binet
6. A Swiss psychologist who developed the inkblot test. Hermann Rorschach
7. The French surgeon, _____, proposed that the production of speech is controlled by the left side of the human brain. Paul Broca
8. _____ developed a form of therapy known as client centered therapy. It stresses humanistic ideals such as positive personal growth. Carl Rogers
9. _____ was the American psychologist who discovered the “law of effect” through his experiments with cats in a “puzzle box”. Edward Thorndike
10. Dualism-which holds that reality is composed of two entities, the mind separate from the body, was advocated by the French philosopher-mathematician. Rene Descartes
11. The linguist who suggested that we have an inborn propensity to learn to talk was _______. Noam Chomsky
12. _______in the mid-1960’s conducted controversial research on social obedience. Stanley Milgram
13. The first woman to hold a Ph. D. in Psychology was_______. Margaret Floy Washburn
14. _____ developed an 8-stage theory of psychosocial development Erik Erikson
15. _________ developed a four stage theory of cognitive development in children. Jean Piaget
16. _____ developed a theory of moral development including preconventional, conventional, and postconventional morality of reasoning. Lawrence Kohlberg
17. This behaviorist advocated that behavior is controlled by consequences. B.F. Skinner
18. _____ was a social psychologist who studied conformity in how group pressure effects distortion of judgment by asking subjects to compare the lengths of different lines. Solomon Asch
19. _____ was the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Sigmund Freud
20. _____ received a Nobel prize for his research on split-brain patients who had their corpus callosum cut. Robert Sperry
21. ____________ studied people’s facial expressions and found cross-cultural agreement on the interpretation of facial expressions. Paul Ekman
22. _____, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for work in the area of digestion, discovered classical conditioning. Ivan Pavlov
23. This psychoanalytic psychologist was famous for the “inferiority complex.” Alfred Adler
24. _____, proposed that personality was made up of two dimensions: introversion vs. extroversion and emotional stability vs. instability. Hans Eysenk
25. This psychoanalytic psychologist developed the concept of the collective unconscious. Carl Jung
26. One of the first to use hypnosis to help patients was _____. He would “magnetize” his patients to cure their problems. Franz Mesmer
27. The Principles of Psychology, authored by, _______, had a profound influence on the early development of psychology along with his theory of emotions with Carl Lange. William James
28. _____ developed an intelligence scale (test) which is the most widely used IQ test today. David Wechsler
29. American psychologist who made major revisions of Binet’s intelligence test to create the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. Lewis Terman
30. ______was an Americandevelopmental psychologist known for her work in early emotional attachment with "The Strange Situation" as well as her work in the development of Attachment Theory. Mary Ainsworth
31. _____ was the first female president of the American Psychological Association. A student of William James, Harvard denied her the degree she deserved. Mary Calkins
32. ______ was the founding father of the Humanistic Perspective. Well known for his hierarchy of needs. Abraham Maslow
33. _____ proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence. Robert Sternberg
34. ______ proposed intelligence is composed of 8 different types. Howard Gardner
35. In 1879, the first psychology laboratory was established in Leipzig, Germany by _____. Wilhelm Wundt
36. This German neurologist discovered the part of the brain responsible for the comprehension of speech. Karl Wernicke
37. _____ developed an empirical approach to the study of memory and the “forgetting curve”. Hermann Ebbinghaus
38. This American trait theorist believed personality can be described in terms of fundamental traits. He divided them into three kinds: cardinal, central and secondary. Raymond Cattell
39. This American psychologist studied attachment to caregivers in infant monkeys. Harry Harlow
40. She demonstrated the problems with eyewitness testimony and constructive memory. Elizabeth Loftus
41. This developmental psychologist placed human infants into a “strange situation” in order to examine attachment to parents. Mary Ainsworth