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GRE Psychology: Important Names
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1. Canadian neurosurgeon who used electrodes and electrical stimulation techniques to 'map' out different parts of the brain during surgery
Gibson - J.
Rogers - C.
Penfield - W.
Witkin - H.
2. Discovered and studied instinctual drift
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Stevens - S. S.
Rescorla - R.
3. Distinguished between the surface structure and deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one sentence into another
Chomsky - N.
McClelland - D.
Hall - E.
Sherrington - C.
4. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived
Whorf - B.
Kandel - E.
Garcia - J.
Hall - E.
5. Developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory.
Eysenck - H.
Hall - E.
Bem - D.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
6. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law
Stevens - S. S.
Rescorla - R.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Sternberg - R.
7. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality
Freud - S.
Luria - A.
Eysenck - H.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
8. Used factor analysis to study primary mental abilities - factors more specific than g but more general than s
Ebbinghaus - H.
Heider - F.
Thurstone - L.
Freud - A.
9. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability
Premack - D.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
Thurstone - L.
Pavlov - I.
10. Developed principles of operant conditioning; _______ Box (rats)
Skinner - B.F.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Sherif - M.
Horney - K.
11. Proposed triarchic theory that divides intelligence into three types: componential - experiential - and contextual
Skinner - B.F.
Zajonc. R.
Sternberg - R.
Bekesy -G.
12. 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.
James - W. and Lange - C.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Mischel - W.
Festinger - L.
13. Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple - complex and hypercomplex cells
Lerner - M.
Bartlett - F.
Adler - A.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
14. Studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information or by asking misleading questions
Wernicke - C.
Loftus - E.
Luchins - A.
Kohler - W.
15. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory
Lorenz - K.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Heider - F.
Zimbardo - P.
16. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions
Erikson - E.
Hall - E.
Zajonc. R.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
17. Russian neurologist who studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory - motor - and language functions
Broadbent - D.
Luria - A.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Lewin - K.
18. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Miller - G.
James - W. and Lange - C.
Rescorla - R.
19. Performed prison simulation and used concept of deindividuation to explain results
Whorf - B.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
Skinner - B.F.
Zimbardo - P.
20. Proposed dual-code hypothesis
Cattell - R.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Paivio - A.
21. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Bandura - A.
Janis - I.
Milgram - S.
22. Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion)
Jung - C.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Miller - G.
Swets - John A.
23. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse
Garcia - J.
Watson - J.
Sherrington - C.
McGuire - W.
24. 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
Freud - S.
Sherif - M.
Sternberg - R.
Zajonc. R.
25. Object-relations theorist
Fechner - G.
Winnicott - D.W.
Spearman - C.
Loftus - E.
26. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
Loftus - E.
McGuire - W.
Erikson - E.
27. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.
Bartlett - F.
Mischel - W.
Sperling - G.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
28. Object-relations theorist
James - W. and Lange - C.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Mahler - M.
29. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex
Horney - K.
Adler - A.
Cattell - R.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
30. Studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings
Ebbinghaus - H.
Janis - I.
Bekesy -G.
Hall - E.
31. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees
Mischel - W.
von Frisch - K.
Skinner - B.F.
Klein - M.
32. Founder of ego psychology
Freud - A.
Garcia - J.
Janis - I.
Stevens - S. S.
33. Developed Young-_______ trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception
Hering - E.
Swets - John A.
Newcomb - T.
Helmholtz - H.
34. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Swets - John A.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Whorf - B.
35. Developed cognitive dissonance theory - also developed social comparison theory
Broca - P.
Kernberg - O.
Festinger - L.
Thurstone - L.
36. Proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non-helping: social influence and diffusion of responsibility
James - W. and Lange - C.
Mischel - W.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Sternberg - R.
37. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Bandura - A.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Cattell - R.
Sternberg - R.
38. Studied insights in problem solving
Penfield - W.
Kohler - W.
Eysenck - H.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
39. Investigated the use of heuristics in decision making ; studied the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Chomsky - N.
Cattell - R.
Rescorla - R.
40. Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the freqency theory of pitch perception
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Cattell - R.
Milner - B.
Luchins - A.
41. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Kohler - W.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Sherrington - C.
42. Developed opponent process theory of color vision
Winnicott - D.W.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Tinbergen - N.
Hering - E.
43. Developed theory of isomorphism
Miller - G.
Lerner - M.
Kohler - W.
Klein - M.
44. Studied obedience by asking subjects to administer electroshock; proposed stimulus-overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers
Garcia - J.
Maslow - A.
Zajonc. R.
Milgram - S.
45. Proposed concept of belief in a just world
Cattell - R.
Tinbergen - N.
Kohler - W.
Lerner - M.
46. Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward - moving against - moving away from
Spearman - C.
Bem - D.
Horney - K.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
47. Devised the semantic feature-comparison model of semantic memory
Hering - E.
Lewin - K.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
Loftus - E.
48. Proposed filter theory of attention
Ebbinghaus - H.
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Zajonc. R.
Broadbent - D.
49. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory
Kernberg - O.
Lewin - K.
Skinner - B.F.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
50. Proposed the Schachter-Singer two-factory theory of emotions
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Eagly - A.
Allport - G.
Kandel - E.