Famous Psychologists 2

More psychologists

11 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

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Question 1
Torsten Wiesel
Occipital lobe discovered, feature detectors
Question 2
Ernest Hilgard
Researched hypnosis
Question 3
Albert Bandura
Soc/cog psych, observational learning, bobo the doll, obs violence => being violent, theory of determinism
Question 4
John Garcia
Taste aversion learning called the "garcia effect"
Question 5
Robert Rescorla
Rescorla-wagner model of conditioning, elementary learning processes, pavlovian conditioning/ instrumental learning
Question 6
Edward Thorndike
Law of effect, do good - good consequences - do again
Question 7
Edward Tolman
Latent learning and cognitive maps
Question 8
Noam Chomsky
Revolutionized ideas about language. Proposed humans are born with an innate language acquisition device that allows them to acquire language skills easily.
Question 9
Herman Ebbinghaus
Pioneer memory researcher, discovered forgetting curve, used self as own subject, very controlled
Question 10
Wolfgang Kohler
Gestalt psychology
Question 11
Elizabeth Loftus
Research on memory construction and the misinformation effect created doubts about the accuracy of eye-witness testimony