GRE Psychology Important Names

GRE Psychology Important Names

University

90 Qs

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GRE Psychology Important Names

GRE Psychology Important Names

Assessment

Quiz

Other

University

Hard

Created by

Vashti Baker

FREE Resource

90 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who studied the effect of competition on performance and found that people perform better on familiar tasks when in the presence of others than when alone?

Norman Triplett

William McDougall

E.H. Ross

Verplank

Pavlov

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who created the social facilitation effect? For example, cyclists tend to have faster times when riding in the presence of a counterpart as opposed to riding alone?

Norman Triplett

William McDougall

E.H. Ross

Verplank

Pavlov

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who published the first textbooks on social psychology and defended that all matter has a mental aspect?

Norman Triplett

William McDougall

E.H. Ross

Verplank

Pavlov

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who suggested that social approval influences behavior? For example, the course of a conversation changes dramatically based upon feedback (approval) from others?

Norman Triplett

William McDougall

E.H. Ross

Verplank

Pavlov

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who helped to establish reinforcement theory?

I. Verplank

II. Pavlov

III. Thorndike

IV. Hull

V. B. F. Skinner

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who considered personality to be a collection of behavior that happens to have been sufficiently reinforced to persist, and the result of behavioral development of an organism?

B.F. Skinner

Sigmund Freud

Carl Rogers

Albert Bandura

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who coined positive reinforcement (the case where you reward someone in order to increase the frequency of a behavior)?

Hull

B. F. Skinner

Albert Bandura

Robert Rescorla

E.L. Thorndike

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