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GRE Psychology: Important Names
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1. Developed balance theory to explain why attitudes change; also developed attribution theory and divided attributions into two categories: dispositional and situational
Heider - F.
Bem - S.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Bem - D.
2. French anatomist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with producing spoken language (_____'S Area)
Wilson - E. O.
Winnicott - D.W.
Broca - P.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
3. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse
Cannon - W.
Horney - K.
Sherrington - C.
Milgram - S.
4. Discovered and studied instinctual drift
Eagly - A.
Bem - S.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Skinner - B.F.
5. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Kandel - E.
Lorenz - K.
Sperling - G.
6. Operant conditioning pioneers worked with pigeons and mice in operant chambers
Skinner - B.F.
Asch - S.
Schachter - S.
Swets - John A.
7. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions
Thurstone - L.
Freud - S.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Hall - E.
8. Developed ______-______ Law which states that performance is best at intermediate levels of arounsal
Wolpe - J.
Sherif - M.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Skinner - B.F.
9. Studied locus of control
Rotter - J.
McClelland - D.
Rescorla - R.
Freud - S.
10. Founder of ego psychology
Watson - J.
Broadbent - D.
Freud - A.
McClelland - D.
11. Studied severe anterograde amnesia in H.M. - a patient whose hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed surgically to control epilepsy
Heider - F.
Milner - B.
Miller - G.
Witkin - H.
12. Studied the capacity of sensory memory using the partial-report method
Kernberg - O.
Berkeley - G.
Sperling - G.
Cannon - W.
13. Studied depth cues (esp. texture gradients) that help us to perceive depths
Gibson - J.
Wilson - E. O.
Lewin - K.
Tinbergen - N.
14. Proposed filter theory of attention
Freud - S.
Broadbent - D.
Adler - A.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
15. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece
Sherif - M.
Gibson - J.
Thorndike - E.
Darwin - C.
16. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items
Luria - A.
McClelland - D.
Miller - G.
Freud - S.
17. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Whorf - B.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Bandura - A.
18. Behaviorist theorist who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts
Klein - M.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Freud - S.
Kohler - W.
19. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law
Bandura - A.
Paivio - A.
Stevens - S. S.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
20. Developed Young-_______ trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception
Kandel - E.
Witkin - H.
Helmholtz - H.
McClelland - D.
21. Proposed the Schachter-Singer two-factory theory of emotions
Rescorla - R.
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Luchins - A.
Penfield - W.
22. Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization
Penfield - W.
Maslow - A.
Zimbardo - P.
von Frisch - K.
23. Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple - complex and hypercomplex cells
Whorf - B.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Adler - A.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
24. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
Witkin - H.
Janis - I.
Zajonc. R.
Bandura - A.
25. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment
Lorenz - K.
Eysenck - H.
Cannon - W.
von Frisch - K.
26. Used factor analysis to study primary mental abilities - factors more specific than g but more general than s
Thurstone - L.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Adler - A.
Kandel - E.
27. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory
Lewin - K.
Sternberg - R.
Kelly - G.
Zimbardo - P.
28. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived
Whorf - B.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
29. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity
Guilford - J.
Kohler - W.
Thorndike - E.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
30. 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
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Zajonc. R.
Eagly - A.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
31. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Rotter - J.
Eysenck - H.
Horney - K.
32. Propsed gain-loss principle (an evaluation that changes will have more effect thatn an evaluation that remains constant)
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Broca - P.
Sherif - M.
33. Developed principles of operant conditioning; _______ Box (rats)
Swets - John A.
Lorenz - K.
Kernberg - O.
Skinner - B.F.
34. Object-relations theorist
Maslow - A.
Bandura - A.
Klein - M.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
35. Devised the semantic feature-comparison model of semantic memory
Darwin - C.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
Milgram - S.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
36. Suggested _______ Principle: that a more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity
Premack - D.
Stevens - S. S.
Miller - G.
Sheldon - W.
37. Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch perception which - at least partially - supported by Helmholtz'S place-resonance theory
Hering - E.
von Frisch - K.
Bekesy -G.
Stevens - S. S.
38. Proposed triarchic theory that divides intelligence into three types: componential - experiential - and contextual
Mischel - W.
Sternberg - R.
Skinner - B.F.
Heider - F.
39. German neurologist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with understanding spoken language (_______'S Area)
Eysenck - H.
Wernicke - C.
Lewin - K.
Fechner - G.
40. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability
Schachter - S.
Erikson - E.
Milner - B.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
41. Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning; school of Bxiorism founder; stimulus-response chains
Wernicke - C.
Watson - J.
Bem - S.
Hovland - C.
42. Demonstrated existence of pleasure center in the brain using 'Self-stimulation' studies in rats
Paivio - A.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Helmholtz - H.
Skinner - B.F.
43. Object-relations theorist
Gardner - H.
Mahler - M.
Cattell - R.
Gibson - J.
44. Physiologist who studied the autonomic nervous system - including 'fight or flight' reactions; investigated homeostasis; and with Bard - proposed _______-Bard theory of emotions
Cannon - W.
Bem - D.
Asch - S.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
45. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Cattell - R.
Zajonc. R.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Rescorla - R.
46. Developed theory of isomorphism
Kohler - W.
Tinbergen - N.
Thorndike - E.
Schachter - S.
47. Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type
Allport - G.
Berkeley - G.
Sheldon - W.
Bandura - A.
48. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees
Kohler - W.
von Frisch - K.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Allport - G.
49. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.
Eagly - A.
Darwin - C.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Bartlett - F.
50. Suggested that the brain processes information using parallel distributed processing (PDP)
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Mischel - W.
James - W. and Lange - C.