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GRE Psychology Important NamesWho studied the effect of competition on performance and found that people perform better on
familiar tasks when in the presence of other than when alone?
A. Norman Triplett
B. William McDougall
C. E.H. Ross
D. Verplank
E. Pavlov - ANS a (Norman Triplett)
Who created the social facilitation effect? For exampled, cyclists tend to have faster times when riding in
the presence of a counterpart as opposed to riding alone?
A. Norman Triplett
B. William McDougall
C. E.H. Ross
D. Verplank
E. Pavlov - ANS a (Norman Triplett)
Who published the first textbooks on social psychology and defended that all matter has a mental
aspect?
A. Norman Triplett
B. William McDougall
C. E.H. Ross
D. Verplank
,E. Pavlov - ANS b (William McDougall)
Who suggested that social approval influences behavior? For example, the course of a conversation
changes dramatically based upon feedback (approval) from others?
A. Norman Triplett
B. William McDougall
C. E.H. Ross
D. Verplank
E. Pavlov - ANS d (Verplank)
Who helped to establish reinforcement theory?
I. Verplank
II. Pavlov
III. Thorndike
IV. Hull
V. B. F. Skinner
A. I and II
B. I, II, and III
C. I, II, and IV
D. II, III, and V
E. all of the above - ANS c (All of the above. Reinforcement theory: behavior is motivated by anticipated
rewards)
,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?
A. Hull
B. B. F. Skinner
C. Albert Bandura
D. Robert Rescorla
E. E.L. Thorndike - ANS b (B.F. Skinner)
Who coined positive reinforcement (the case where you reward someone in order to increase the
frequency of a behavior)?
A. Hull
B. B. F. Skinner
C. Albert Bandura
D. Robert Rescorla
E. E.L. Thorndike - ANS b (B.F. Skinner)
Who coined negative reinforcement (desired response will be performed by taking away or preventing
something undesirable whenever the desired response is made)?
A. Hull
B. B. F. Skinner
C. Albert Bandura
D. Robert Rescorla
E. E.L. Thorndike - ANS b (B.F. Skinner)
, Who coined punishment (giving organisms something undesirable whenever the response is made)?
A. Hull
B. B. F. Skinner
C. Albert Bandura
D. Robert Rescorla
E. E.L. Thorndike - ANS b (B.F. Skinner)
Who coined extinction (behavior that used to bring reward no longer does)?
A. Hull
B. B. F. Skinner
C. Albert Bandura
D. Robert Rescorla
E. E.L. Thorndike - ANS b (B.F. Skinner)
Who proposed that behavior is learned through imitation?
A. Hull
B. B. F. Skinner
C. Albert Bandura
D. Robert Rescorla
E. E.L. Thorndike - ANS c (Albert Bandura)
Who was the main figure in social learning theory?
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