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Psychologists and Their Theories

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Psychologists and Their Theories game quiz
"About psychologists and the theories they developed."

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1. This psychologist followed in the footsteps of her famous father to become a leading psychoanalyst. In particular, she specialized in child psychoanalysis.
    Melanie Klein
    Karen Horney
    Mary Calkins
    Anna Freud


2. This Canadian born psychologist defined the theory of reciprocal determinism. This means that just as the environment causes behaviors, behaviors have an effect on the environment.
    Albert Bandura
    Carl Jung
    Erik Erikson
    John Watson


3. This theorist is famous for his Hierarchy of Needs which states that people and animals are more concerned about meeting those needs necessary for survival than they are concerned about becoming geniuses.
    Adler
    Kohlberg
    Maslow
    Jung


4. Who developed the theory of drive reduction?
    Clark Hull
    Jean Piaget
    Ivan Pavlov
    Carl Rogers


5. This English psychologist worked closely with Anna Freud for a time and was an expert on child psychoanalysis.
    Christine Ladd-Franklin
    Elizabeth Loftus
    Melanie Klein
    Dorothea Dix


6. The 'collective unconscious' is this psychologist's claim to fame.
    Carl Jung
    Carl Rogers
    Charles Turner
    John Watson


7. Two words ... salivating dogs.
    Pavlov
    Skinner
    Piaget
    Rogers


8. Teachers love him, as his theory of development has been the basis for educational theory for many decades. He stated that there were exactly four stages of development.
    James Fowler
    Albert Bandura
    Erik Erikson
    Jean Piaget


9. He believed that changes in behavior are a result of a persons response to events that occur in the environment. You know, stimulus, behavior, reward.
    Bandura
    Wundt
    Freud
    Skinner


10. He believed that there are two types of learning, cognitive, which is meaningless, and experiential, which is not meaningless. Clearly, in his mind, experiential learning was the best way to go.
    John Watson
    Alfred Kinsey
    Carl Rogers
    James Fowler


11. This man was the founder of psychoanalysis.
    Answer: (One Word)


12. He developed the theory of multiple intelligences.
    Freud
    Gardner
    Watson
    Bandura


13. This behaviorist got bored with behaviorism and became an advertising executive.
    Watson
    Wundt
    Freud
    Rogers


14. He founded the first formal psychology laboratory in the world in 1879.
    Thorndike
    Wundt
    Pavlov
    Piaget


15. He developed the concept of id, ego and superego.
    Answer: ( One Word .. think pipe, couch and fixation on relationships with mothers)


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