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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Investigated functional differences between left and right cerebral hemispheres using 'Split-brain' studies
Rotter - J.
Festinger - L.
Lerner - M.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.

2. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny
Skinner - B.F.
Garcia - J.
Bem - S.
Heider - F.

3. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning
Loftus - E.
Cattell - R.
Sherif - M.
Pavlov - I.

4. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Horney - K.
Eysenck - H.
Luria - A.

5. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment
Lorenz - K.
Jung - C.
Skinner - B.F.
Cannon - W.

6. Studied obedience by asking subjects to administer electroshock; proposed stimulus-overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers
von Frisch - K.
Milgram - S.
Wilson - E. O.
Sheldon - W.

7. Distinguished between the surface structure and deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one sentence into another
Bandura - A.
Chomsky - N.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.

8. Suggested that the brain processes information using parallel distributed processing (PDP)
Loftus - E.
Helmholtz - H.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Stevens - S. S.

9. Developed theory of isomorphism
Kohler - W.
Rescorla - R.
Cattell - R.
Schachter - S.

10. French anatomist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with producing spoken language (_____'S Area)
Witkin - H.
Penfield - W.
Broca - P.
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.

11. Studied the capacity of sensory memory using the partial-report method
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Sherif - M.
Sperling - G.
Freud - A.

12. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse
Gibson - J.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Sherrington - C.

13. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations
Tinbergen - N.
Luchins - A.
Stevens - S. S.
Bartlett - F.

14. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Bartlett - F.
Sherrington - C.
Asch - S.

15. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission
Kohler - W.
Sheldon - W.
Lorenz - K.
Kandel - E.

16. Critic of trait theories of personality
Mischel - W.
Witkin - H.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Cattell - R.

17. Developed sociobiology
Cannon - W.
Rescorla - R.
Wilson - E. O.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.

18. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan
Asch - S.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
James - W. and Lange - C.
Cattell - R.

19. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Kernberg - O.
Miller - G.
Watson - J.

20. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation
Schachter - S.
Mahler - M.
Premack - D.
Witkin - H.

21. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory
Klein - M.
Rotter - J.
Garcia - J.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.

22. Studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information or by asking misleading questions
Kelly - G.
Hering - E.
Loftus - E.
Wolpe - J.

23. Object-relations theorist
Mahler - M.
Thorndike - E.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.

24. Studied attitude change
Lewin - K.
Hovland - C.
Kohler - W.
McClelland - D.

25. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
Horney - K.
Kohler - W.
Janis - I.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.

26. Studied political norms
Fechner - G.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Newcomb - T.
Jung - C.

27. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law
Zajonc. R.
Stevens - S. S.
Kohler - W.
Lewin - K.

28. Developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory.
Freud - S.
Bem - D.
Hering - E.
McGuire - W.

29. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan
Milner - B.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Erikson - E.
Swets - John A.

30. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test
Witkin - H.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Sherif - M.
Gibson - J.

31. Developed ________ Law - which expresses the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of the sensation
Fechner - G.
Bekesy -G.
Penfield - W.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.

32. Investigated the use of heuristics in decision making ; studied the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
Zimbardo - P.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Garcia - J.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.

33. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived
Freud - S.
Whorf - B.
Lorenz - K.
von Frisch - K.

34. Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward - moving against - moving away from
Fechner - G.
Horney - K.
Gardner - H.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.

35. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception
Hall - E.
Bandura - A.
Milgram - S.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.

36. 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
Rogers - C.
Eagly - A.
Tinbergen - N.
Zajonc. R.

37. Object-relations theorist
Hall - E.
Witkin - H.
Adler - A.
Klein - M.

38. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Darwin - C.
McGuire - W.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.

39. Founder of ego psychology
Kelly - G.
Cannon - W.
Penfield - W.
Freud - A.

40. Object-relations theorist
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Eysenck - H.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Winnicott - D.W.

41. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
Penfield - W.
Bandura - A.
Wolpe - J.

42. Developed cognitive dissonance theory - also developed social comparison theory
Sternberg - R.
Hovland - C.
Festinger - L.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.

43. Discovered and studied instinctual drift
Thurstone - L.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Sheldon - W.

44. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory
Schachter - S.
Lerner - M.
Berkeley - G.
Lewin - K.

45. Developed a list of depth cues that help us to perceive depth
Asch - S.
von Frisch - K.
Darwin - C.
Berkeley - G.

46. Proposed concept of belief in a just world
Wernicke - C.
Bem - D.
Freud - S.
Lerner - M.

47. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'
Cattell - R.
Kelly - G.
Eysenck - H.
Winnicott - D.W.

48. Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch perception which - at least partially - supported by Helmholtz'S place-resonance theory
Stevens - S. S.
Bekesy -G.
Zajonc. R.
Darwin - C.

49. Proposed the Schachter-Singer two-factory theory of emotions
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Bekesy -G.
Hall - E.

50. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory
Swets - John A.
Kelly - G.
Premack - D.
Sherif - M.