MCAT Psych/Soc Psychologists Exam Questions And Correct Answers
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MCAT Psych/Soc Psychologists Exam
Questions And Correct Answers
Mary Ainsworth - answerFamous for her "strange situation experiments" where mothers
would leave their infants in an unfamiliar environment to see how they would react. Studies
suggested a distinction between securely attached and i...
MCAT Psych/Soc Psychologists Exam
Questions And Correct Answers
Mary Ainsworth - answer✔✔Famous for her "strange situation experiments" where mothers
would leave their infants in an unfamiliar environment to see how they would react. Studies
suggested a distinction between securely attached and insecurely attached infants.
Solomon Asch - answer✔✔Conducted research on conformity and group pressure by placing
subjects in a room with several confederates (the subjects believed the confederates to be fellow
study subjects) and observing the behavior of the subject when confederates provided clearly
wrong answers.
Albert Bandura - answer✔✔Famous for his Bobo doll studies that demonstrated observational
learning; also pioneered the idea of the importance of self-efficacy in promoting learning.
Raymond Cattell - answer✔✔A psychologist interested in personality, who used factor analysis
with hundreds of surface traits to identify which traits were related to each other. By this process,
he identified sixteen source traits, and by factor analysis reduced fifteen of those into five global
factors: extroversion, anxiety, receptivity, accommodation, and self-control.
Emile Durkheim - answer✔✔Considered the father of sociology and a major proponent of
functionalism, he was the pioneer of modern social research and established the field of
sociology as separate and distinct from psychology and political philosophy.
Erik Erikson - answer✔✔He extended Freud's theory of developmental stages in two ways. He
added social and interpersonal factors, to supplement Freud's focus on unconscious conflicts
within a person. And he delineated additional developmental stages and conflicts in adolescence
and adulthood, to supplement Freud's focus on early childhood. His stages include: trust vs.
mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs.
role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnantion, and integrity vs. despair.
Phineas Gage - answer✔✔Famous case of a man who suffered damage to his prefrontal cortex
after a railraod tie blasted through his head. His symptoms, due to damage to this area, included
impulsivity, an inability to stick to plans, and an inability to demonstrate empathy.
Harry and Margaret Harlow - answer✔✔Researchers known for their controversial experiments
with monkeys in which they showed that baby monkeys are drawn to mothers that provide
comfort rather than simply food. Also showed that monkeys raised in isolation developed severe
mental and social deficits.
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