MCQs of Psychology – Major Thinkers in Psychology

Which kind of therapy developed by Freud is called?

Who is famous for his work in operant conditioning and behavioral modification?

Who is author of Utopian works such as walden II?

who discovered the concept of classical conditioning in an experiment that involved lots of dog drool?

Who developed a concept of the intellectual growth of children that is widely used in teacher education?

Who developed the theory of drive reduction?

Who was Freud’s biographer?

Where did Freud spent most of his life?

Operant conditioning was studied by

According to Fiedler contingency model of leadership the most favourable conditions for effective leadership are:

Who is a structuralist?

Tolman’s experiment with rats in the maze was aimed to study:

In the Harlow’s research surrogate mothers were used for studying the attachment behaviour of infant monkeys. The surrogate mothers were:

Who developed a measure of ‘ego strength’ from some items of the MMPI?

Who identified the concepts of superego and ego?

Who discovered the concept classical conditioning in experiment that involved lots of dogs drool?

According to the Cannon-Bard theory,

Who developed a concept of the intellectual growth of children that is widely used in teacher education

What was the first phase freud believed a human being went through in his psychosexual developmental phases?

In Which of Freud’s works did he introduce his famous Oedipus complex?

Who is commonly recognized as the father of modern sociology?

According to J.W.B Douglas’s study which of the following classes are deprived of parental supports?

Who carried out a study on ethnicity in schools?

Who suggested that black people were over represented in special needs?

Who said black people who do badly at school do so because they are socially deprived?

Which interactionalists invented the labeling theory?

Max Weber’s term for power made legitimate by a leader’s exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers

Jean Piaget’s theory explaining how children’s thought progresses through four stages

The term “Anomic Suicide” is used by:

Herbert Spencer classified the society into:

Man is social animal” who said:

According to Darwin a behaviour made up of units compatible with the mechanisms of inheritance and thus a product of natural selection is:

Rodentsrespond to alarm calls by others in their group. if these calls are continued and no danger is confirmed further calls may be ignored. it an example of:

In Pavlov’s experiments with dogs salivation was the:

In Pavlov’s experiments with dogs the conditioned stimulus was the:

Ivan Pavlov has been credited with the initial discovery of:

In Pavlov’s experiments with dogs, the bell (prior to conditioning) was the:

In Pavlov’s experiments with dogs the bell (during and after conditioning) was the:

In pavlov’s experiments with dogs, food was the:

Maslow proposed a need to develop one’s potential and be he best one can be, which he called:

Who mainly presented the idea of social conflict:

Who advocated the philosophical approach called idealism understanding society?

How many functional requirements Talcott Parsons claimed for the survival of society:

Who has given the “Deterministic or single Factor Theory”?

” Crime is learned in Associations” Who said this:

Why would Daniel’s housemates considered one of his primary groups?

Why would Daniel’s economics classmates be considered one of hs secondary groups?

Who coined the term sociological imagination?

Who coined the term ‘sociological imagination;?

One of Simmel’s major contributions was an emphasis on the:

Who became one of the most influential theorists through the development of a ‘historical materialist’ analysis?

“A race is a valid biological concept. it is a group united by heredity, a breed or genetic strain or subspecies” this definition is attributed to

Who has given the concept of ‘ethnic group’ ?

Who differentiated among enculturation, transcultu-ration and acculturation?

Who defined ‘culture trait’ as a repeatedly irreducible unit of learned behaviour pattern or material product there of?

Whose contribution to the study of values is widely recognised?

His main work was the philosophy of history’ Identify?

What is the proletarianization?

Who said’ Everything that’s solid will melt into air?

Who developed the theory of drive reduction?

Where did Freud spent most of his life?

Who is associated with Gestalt school of psychology?

Who is humanistic psychologist?

According to john Watson. introspection was

Which of the following represents the correct order of piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

According to Erikson, the first stage of development (birth to one year) is a period when the infant develops the basic characteristic of

According to Robert Sternberg, intelligence can be divided into three major parts. these three components of intelligence are

In Thorndike’s law of effect, events critical for conditioning:

Freud believed that all thoughts and actions are determined by:

Many of Freud’s contemporaies disagreed with his ideas, who placed more emphasis on the innate desire for self-fulfillment and a striving for superiority?

Reuptake refers to a process in which

Kinesics refers to the study of

Maslow proposed a need to develop one’s potential and be the best one can be which he called

Freud stressed the role of _______ in shaping our personalities.

The “father” of psychology is

The founder of the first psychological laboratory was?

Operant conditioning was studied by

Ageism term coined by:

Who wrote time on the cross”?