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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
    Anna Freud
    Mary Calkins
    Karen Horney


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.
    John Watson
    Erik Erikson
    Albert Bandura
    Carl Jung


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.
    Kohlberg
    Maslow
    Jung
    Adler


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


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


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


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


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.
    Jean Piaget
    Erik Erikson
    James Fowler
    Albert Bandura


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.
    Skinner
    Freud
    Bandura
    Wundt


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.
    Alfred Kinsey
    John Watson
    James Fowler
    Carl Rogers


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.
    Freud
    Rogers
    Wundt
    Watson


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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