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Psychologist Names
Names of famous psychologists
Question | Answer |
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Aronson and Linder | Proposed gain loss principle which is an evaluation that changes will have more effect than an evaluation which remains constant |
Solomon Asch | Famous conformity research who had subjects compare lenghts of lines in the famous classroom experiment |
Albert Bandura | Self efficacy researcher, famous for social learning theory and having kids beat clowns |
Daryl Bem | Developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory, kid who washes dishes for fun will be less likely to do that when being paid |
John Darley and Bib Latané | Proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non helping: social influence and the diffusion of responsibility; studied bystander intervention after Kitty Genovese |
Alice Eagly | Gender differences in conformity were due to differing social roles and not neccessairly gender |
Leon Festinger | Developed cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory --> we are drawn to affiliate because of a tendency to evaluate ourselves in relation to others |
Edward Hall | Important cross cultural psychologist who studied norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions |
Clark, K, and Clark. M | performed stuidy on doll preferences in african american children and the results were used in teh 1954 court case Brown v. the topeka board of education |
Friz Heider | Developed balance theory to explain why attitudes change (triangles) and also developed attribution theory; with dispositional and situational atribution (fundamental attribution error) |