LSU PSYC 4176 Exam 1 Matson
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Thorndike - ✔✔known for the law of effect and trial and error learning
Thorndike - ✔✔He studied cats in boxes designed so cat could get out if it made a
certain response
Law of effect - ✔✔stamping behaviors in and out; behavior is shaped by its
consequences
Law of effect - ✔✔What law is this? responses accompanied by satisfaction to animal
will; greater satisfaction, greater the strengthening of bond
Skinner - ✔✔He is known for operant conditioning
Skinner - ✔✔He conducted detailed studies of schedules of reinforcement; He
advocated a technology of behavior based on experimental analysis of behavior using
operant conditioning principles
Hall - ✔✔He started the first psychology department in U.S. at Clark University
Hall - ✔✔He invites Freud to lecture at Clark University
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, Hall - ✔✔He became the president of Clark University
Hall - ✔✔He is often considered the father of child psychology
Hall - ✔✔He taught the first course on child psychology- he also established a scientific
journal on the topic.
Judge Baker - ✔✔He believed there was more to juvenile delinquency than being a
"bad" kid, so he created a treatment center for them
Binet - ✔✔He developed the first IQ test in Paris, France
Binet - ✔✔published first useful test of general mental ability; broke kids up into 'bright'
and 'dull' by how they compared with both their chronological age and mental age
Beers - ✔✔He is known for his book, A Mind That Found Itself
Beers - ✔✔He is a reformer of treatment of mental illness and the way society views it
Beers - ✔✔He talked about everything he went through while he was there; There was a
lot of mal treatment
Beers - ✔✔He founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and his mental
hygiene movement focused on prevention
A Mind That Found Itself - ✔✔A very influential book that showed what is was like to
live in a mental health clinic
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Thorndike - ✔✔known for the law of effect and trial and error learning
Thorndike - ✔✔He studied cats in boxes designed so cat could get out if it made a
certain response
Law of effect - ✔✔stamping behaviors in and out; behavior is shaped by its
consequences
Law of effect - ✔✔What law is this? responses accompanied by satisfaction to animal
will; greater satisfaction, greater the strengthening of bond
Skinner - ✔✔He is known for operant conditioning
Skinner - ✔✔He conducted detailed studies of schedules of reinforcement; He
advocated a technology of behavior based on experimental analysis of behavior using
operant conditioning principles
Hall - ✔✔He started the first psychology department in U.S. at Clark University
Hall - ✔✔He invites Freud to lecture at Clark University
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, Hall - ✔✔He became the president of Clark University
Hall - ✔✔He is often considered the father of child psychology
Hall - ✔✔He taught the first course on child psychology- he also established a scientific
journal on the topic.
Judge Baker - ✔✔He believed there was more to juvenile delinquency than being a
"bad" kid, so he created a treatment center for them
Binet - ✔✔He developed the first IQ test in Paris, France
Binet - ✔✔published first useful test of general mental ability; broke kids up into 'bright'
and 'dull' by how they compared with both their chronological age and mental age
Beers - ✔✔He is known for his book, A Mind That Found Itself
Beers - ✔✔He is a reformer of treatment of mental illness and the way society views it
Beers - ✔✔He talked about everything he went through while he was there; There was a
lot of mal treatment
Beers - ✔✔He founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and his mental
hygiene movement focused on prevention
A Mind That Found Itself - ✔✔A very influential book that showed what is was like to
live in a mental health clinic
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