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GRE Psychology: Important Names
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1. 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.
Sheldon - W.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Cattell - R.
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
2. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems
McGuire - W.
McClelland - D.
Wolpe - J.
Kandel - E.
3. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'
Wilson - E. O.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Kelly - G.
McGuire - W.
4. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion
Kandel - E.
McGuire - W.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Hering - E.
5. Physiologist who studied the autonomic nervous system - including 'fight or flight' reactions; investigated homeostasis; and with Bard - proposed _______-Bard theory of emotions
Luria - A.
Swets - John A.
Darwin - C.
Cannon - W.
6. Proposed the James-Lange two-factor theory of emotions
Thurstone - L.
Sheldon - W.
James - W. and Lange - C.
Luria - A.
7. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Pavlov - I.
Schachter - S.
8. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test
Bekesy -G.
Chomsky - N.
Witkin - H.
Winnicott - D.W.
9. Propsed gain-loss principle (an evaluation that changes will have more effect thatn an evaluation that remains constant)
James - W. and Lange - C.
Maslow - A.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
10. Developed a list of depth cues that help us to perceive depth
Swets - John A.
Rogers - C.
Zimbardo - P.
Berkeley - G.
11. Performed experiements which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theory of classical conditioning
Garcia - J.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Broadbent - D.
Rescorla - R.
12. Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion)
Maslow - A.
Milner - B.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Allport - G.
13. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions
Thurstone - L.
Freud - A.
Hall - E.
Sherrington - C.
14. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations
Tinbergen - N.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Rotter - J.
Berkeley - G.
15. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.
Gardner - H.
Sternberg - R.
Mahler - M.
Bartlett - F.
16. Studied attitude change
Tinbergen - N.
Garcia - J.
Hovland - C.
Eysenck - H.
17. Proposed dual-code hypothesis
Festinger - L.
Paivio - A.
Cattell - R.
Thorndike - E.
18. 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.
Witkin - H.
Jung - C.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Cattell - R.
19. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived
Kandel - E.
Whorf - B.
Cannon - W.
Helmholtz - H.
20. Object-relations theorist
Hovland - C.
Winnicott - D.W.
Mahler - M.
Schachter - S.
21. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception
Whorf - B.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Hovland - C.
Lewin - K.
22. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission
Kandel - E.
Tinbergen - N.
Broca - P.
Broadbent - D.
23. Studied depth cues (esp. texture gradients) that help us to perceive depths
Kohler - W.
Lerner - M.
Penfield - W.
Gibson - J.
24. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment
Milgram - S.
Paivio - A.
Lorenz - K.
Newcomb - T.
25. Studied locus of control
Rotter - J.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
von Frisch - K.
Watson - J.
26. Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber'S Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation
Sherif - M.
Thorndike - E.
Skinner - B.F.
Mischel - W.
27. Developed principles of operant conditioning; _______ Box (rats)
Skinner - B.F.
Berkeley - G.
Rogers - C.
Sherif - M.
28. Developed ________ Law - which expresses the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of the sensation
Kernberg - O.
Lewin - K.
James - W. and Lange - C.
Fechner - G.
29. Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward - moving against - moving away from
Kelly - G.
Loftus - E.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Horney - K.
30. Developed opponent process theory of color vision
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Hering - E.
von Frisch - K.
Luria - A.
31. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory
Bem - S.
Zajonc. R.
Witkin - H.
Swets - John A.
32. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
Rotter - J.
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
Milgram - S.
Allport - G.
33. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Schachter - S.
Pavlov - I.
Bartlett - F.
34. 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.
Chomsky - N.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Zajonc. R.
35. Developed cognitive dissonance theory - also developed social comparison theory
Guilford - J.
Festinger - L.
Erikson - E.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
36. Developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory.
Bem - D.
Berkeley - G.
Maslow - A.
Hovland - C.
37. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity
Garcia - J.
Lerner - M.
Hovland - C.
Guilford - J.
38. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan
Kernberg - O.
Asch - S.
Rogers - C.
Cattell - R.
39. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny
Darwin - C.
Mahler - M.
Bem - S.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
40. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items
Miller - G.
Sherrington - C.
Thurstone - L.
Bem - D.
41. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Newcomb - T.
Stevens - S. S.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
42. Critic of trait theories of personality
Mischel - W.
Freud - S.
Schachter - S.
Paivio - A.
43. Distinguished between the surface structure and deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one sentence into another
Sperling - G.
Stevens - S. S.
Chomsky - N.
Skinner - B.F.
44. Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning; school of Bxiorism founder; stimulus-response chains
Luria - A.
Skinner - B.F.
Watson - J.
Lorenz - K.
45. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Adler - A.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
James - W. and Lange - C.
46. Object-relations theorist
Mahler - M.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Freud - A.
Bekesy -G.
47. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Erikson - E.
Festinger - L.
48. Russian neurologist who studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory - motor - and language functions
Chomsky - N.
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
Eysenck - H.
Luria - A.
49. Studied insights in problem solving
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Kohler - W.
Skinner - B.F.
Kandel - E.
50. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece
Darwin - C.
Broadbent - D.
Jung - C.
Bartlett - F.