SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
GRE Psychology: Important Names
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
gre
,
psychology
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Skinner - B.F.
Skinner - B.F.
Cattell - R.
Kohler - W.
2. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
Eagly - A.
Allport - G.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Witkin - H.
3. Studied the capacity of sensory memory using the partial-report method
Premack - D.
Sperling - G.
Zajonc. R.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
4. Developed opponent process theory of color vision
Hall - E.
Hering - E.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Festinger - L.
5. Proposed filter theory of attention
Spearman - C.
Adler - A.
Schachter - S.
Broadbent - D.
6. Studied severe anterograde amnesia in H.M. - a patient whose hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed surgically to control epilepsy
Swets - John A.
Milner - B.
Eagly - A.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
7. Suggested that the brain processes information using parallel distributed processing (PDP)
Wilson - E. O.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Janis - I.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
8. Physiologist who studied the autonomic nervous system - including 'fight or flight' reactions; investigated homeostasis; and with Bard - proposed _______-Bard theory of emotions
Bem - S.
Eysenck - H.
Cannon - W.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
9. Russian neurologist who studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory - motor - and language functions
Berkeley - G.
Thorndike - E.
Lewin - K.
Luria - A.
10. Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber'S Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation
Sherif - M.
Eagly - A.
Chomsky - N.
Adler - A.
11. Performed prison simulation and used concept of deindividuation to explain results
Zimbardo - P.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Milner - B.
Newcomb - T.
12. Investigated the use of heuristics in decision making ; studied the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
Mahler - M.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Spearman - C.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
13. Developed ________ Law - which expresses the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of the sensation
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Fechner - G.
Skinner - B.F.
Adler - A.
14. Proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non-helping: social influence and diffusion of responsibility
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Wolpe - J.
Heider - F.
15. Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward - moving against - moving away from
Skinner - B.F.
Horney - K.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Lewin - K.
16. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory
Allport - G.
Jung - C.
Chomsky - N.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
17. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees
von Frisch - K.
Kelly - G.
Lerner - M.
Freud - S.
18. Developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory.
Bem - D.
Hering - E.
Rogers - C.
Helmholtz - H.
19. Performed experiements which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theory of classical conditioning
Rescorla - R.
Kohler - W.
Watson - J.
Helmholtz - H.
20. Developed theory of isomorphism
Swets - John A.
Kohler - W.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Allport - G.
21. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny
Bem - S.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Penfield - W.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
22. Studied obedience by asking subjects to administer electroshock; proposed stimulus-overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers
Whorf - B.
Zimbardo - P.
Milgram - S.
Miller - G.
23. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Eysenck - H.
Cannon - W.
Broca - P.
24. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan
Cattell - R.
Freud - S.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Bandura - A.
25. Psychodynamic theorist who broke with Freud over the concept of libido; suggested that the unconscious should be divided into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious - with archetypes being in the collective unconscious.
Lewin - K.
Milner - B.
Wolpe - J.
Jung - C.
26. Studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information or by asking misleading questions
Kernberg - O.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Mischel - W.
Loftus - E.
27. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation
Schachter - S.
Tinbergen - N.
Fechner - G.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
28. Studied depth cues (esp. texture gradients) that help us to perceive depths
Swets - John A.
Gibson - J.
Rotter - J.
Hovland - C.
29. Object-relations theorist
Garcia - J.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Cattell - R.
Winnicott - D.W.
30. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory
Jung - C.
Berkeley - G.
Swets - John A.
Spearman - C.
31. Operant conditioning pioneers worked with pigeons and mice in operant chambers
Bartlett - F.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Sternberg - R.
Skinner - B.F.
32. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment
Lorenz - K.
Garcia - J.
Cattell - R.
von Frisch - K.
33. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse
Berkeley - G.
Sherrington - C.
McClelland - D.
Bekesy -G.
34. Founder of ego psychology
Swets - John A.
Thurstone - L.
Freud - A.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
35. Studied taste aversion learning and proposed that some species are biologically prepared to learn connections between certain stimuli
Kernberg - O.
Garcia - J.
Rescorla - R.
Ebbinghaus - H.
36. Discovered and studied instinctual drift
Milner - B.
Lerner - M.
Asch - S.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
37. Studied observational learning
Penfield - W.
Cannon - W.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Bandura - A.
38. Studied conformity by asking subjects to compare the lengths of lines.
Wilson - E. O.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Asch - S.
Heider - F.
39. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items
Maslow - A.
Kelly - G.
Miller - G.
Janis - I.
40. Studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings
Kernberg - O.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Chomsky - N.
Rescorla - R.
41. Proposed the James-Lange two-factor theory of emotions
James - W. and Lange - C.
Thurstone - L.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
42. Developed sociobiology
Schachter - S.
Zimbardo - P.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
Wilson - E. O.
43. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
Cattell - R.
Bekesy -G.
Janis - I.
Eagly - A.
44. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.
Winnicott - D.W.
Bartlett - F.
Paivio - A.
Mahler - M.
45. Proposed concept of belief in a just world
Lerner - M.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
Spearman - C.
46. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory
Paivio - A.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Zajonc. R.
Hovland - C.
47. German neurologist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with understanding spoken language (_______'S Area)
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Winnicott - D.W.
Sternberg - R.
Wernicke - C.
48. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Festinger - L.
Rogers - C.
Adler - A.
49. Studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions in monkeys resulting from damage to temporal lobes; also studied in amygdala'S role in emotions
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Garcia - J.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
Sherrington - C.
50. Suggested that individual differences in intelligence were largely due to differences in amount of a general factor called g
Luria - A.
Spearman - C.
Milgram - S.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.