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GRE Psychology: Important Names
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1. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees
Kandel - E.
Freud - S.
von Frisch - K.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
2. Proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non-helping: social influence and diffusion of responsibility
Milner - B.
Luchins - A.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Schachter - S.
3. Performed study on doll preferences in African-American children; the results were used in the 1954 Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court case.
Hovland - C.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Rotter - J.
Kelly - G.
4. Suggested that gender differences in conformity were not due to gender per se - but to differing social roles.
Eagly - A.
Premack - D.
Bandura - A.
Sherrington - C.
5. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism
Stevens - S. S.
Janis - I.
Swets - John A.
Eysenck - H.
6. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan
McGuire - W.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Cattell - R.
Stevens - S. S.
7. Investigated functional differences between left and right cerebral hemispheres using 'Split-brain' studies
Hering - E.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Berkeley - G.
8. Developed principles of operant conditioning; _______ Box (rats)
Bartlett - F.
Spearman - C.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Skinner - B.F.
9. Studied obedience by asking subjects to administer electroshock; proposed stimulus-overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Bekesy -G.
Milgram - S.
10. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability
Guilford - J.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
Zajonc. R.
Eagly - A.
11. Developed Young-_______ trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Rogers - C.
Helmholtz - H.
Festinger - L.
12. Developed cognitive dissonance theory - also developed social comparison theory
Bandura - A.
Cattell - R.
Festinger - L.
Wolpe - J.
13. Studied severe anterograde amnesia in H.M. - a patient whose hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed surgically to control epilepsy
Gardner - H.
Milner - B.
Tinbergen - N.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
14. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Thorndike - E.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Cattell - R.
Bem - S.
15. Studied conformity by asking subjects to compare the lengths of lines.
Spearman - C.
McGuire - W.
Bandura - A.
Asch - S.
16. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment
Lorenz - K.
Kandel - E.
Maslow - A.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
17. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex
Gibson - J.
Adler - A.
Bekesy -G.
Cannon - W.
18. Behaviorist theorist who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Swets - John A.
Cannon - W.
19. German neurologist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with understanding spoken language (_______'S Area)
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Wernicke - C.
Erikson - E.
20. Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion)
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Rescorla - R.
Hovland - C.
Janis - I.
21. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
Darwin - C.
Lewin - K.
Stevens - S. S.
Janis - I.
22. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission
Kernberg - O.
Kandel - E.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Loftus - E.
23. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test
Witkin - H.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Wilson - E. O.
Darwin - C.
24. Proposed the James-Lange two-factor theory of emotions
James - W. and Lange - C.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Rotter - J.
Wilson - E. O.
25. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems
Swets - John A.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Wolpe - J.
26. Performed experiements which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theory of classical conditioning
Wilson - E. O.
Cannon - W.
Luchins - A.
Rescorla - R.
27. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Erikson - E.
Lewin - K.
Allport - G.
28. Proposed a theory of multiple intelligences that divides intelligence into seven different types - all of which are equally important; traditional IQ tests measure only two of the seven types
Gardner - H.
Kohler - W.
Sherif - M.
Newcomb - T.
29. Discovered and studied instinctual drift
Broca - P.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Eysenck - H.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
30. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory
Hall - E.
Zimbardo - P.
Mischel - W.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
31. Developed sociobiology
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Erikson - E.
Sherif - M.
Wilson - E. O.
32. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Milgram - S.
Sherrington - C.
Horney - K.
33. Object-relations theorist
Sperling - G.
Kandel - E.
Kernberg - O.
Erikson - E.
34. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law
Stevens - S. S.
Heider - F.
Rotter - J.
Paivio - A.
35. Proposed triarchic theory that divides intelligence into three types: componential - experiential - and contextual
Sternberg - R.
Wernicke - C.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
36. Studied observational learning
Bandura - A.
Guilford - J.
Miller - G.
Gardner - H.
37. Founder of ego psychology
Gardner - H.
Freud - A.
Bandura - A.
James - W. and Lange - C.
38. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse
Sherrington - C.
Thorndike - E.
Bandura - A.
Stevens - S. S.
39. Studied the mere exposure effect; also resolved problems with the social facilitation effect by suggesting that the presence of others enhances the emission of dominant responses and impairs the emission of nondominant responses
Helmholtz - H.
Mahler - M.
Guilford - J.
Zajonc. R.
40. Used factor analysis to study primary mental abilities - factors more specific than g but more general than s
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
Festinger - L.
Kohler - W.
Thurstone - L.
41. Phenomenological theorist who found empathy - congruence - and unconditional positive regards to be important aspects; person-centered
Berkeley - G.
Miller - G.
Kernberg - O.
Rogers - C.
42. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.
Asch - S.
Bartlett - F.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Adler - A.
43. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Allport - G.
Horney - K.
Kelly - G.
44. Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the freqency theory of pitch perception
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Kohler - W.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
von Frisch - K.
45. Studied attitude change
Sherif - M.
Hovland - C.
Sternberg - R.
Erikson - E.
46. Proposed gate theory of pain
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
Kohler - W.
Thorndike - E.
Gibson - J.
47. Canadian neurosurgeon who used electrodes and electrical stimulation techniques to 'map' out different parts of the brain during surgery
Penfield - W.
Kandel - E.
Kernberg - O.
Luria - A.
48. Suggested _______ Principle: that a more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity
Schachter - S.
Premack - D.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Luchins - A.
49. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Hall - E.
Gardner - H.
Bartlett - F.
50. Distinguished between the surface structure and deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one sentence into another
Skinner - B.F.
Chomsky - N.
Sherrington - C.
Spearman - C.