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GRE Psychology: Important Names
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1. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
Zimbardo - P.
Kandel - E.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Allport - G.
2. Suggested _______ Principle: that a more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity
Lewin - K.
Klein - M.
Hovland - C.
Premack - D.
3. Canadian neurosurgeon who used electrodes and electrical stimulation techniques to 'map' out different parts of the brain during surgery
Guilford - J.
Mahler - M.
Winnicott - D.W.
Penfield - W.
4. Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Maslow - A.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
von Frisch - K.
5. Founder of ego psychology
Cannon - W.
Freud - A.
Fechner - G.
Bekesy -G.
6. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny
Adler - A.
Kelly - G.
Bem - S.
Rotter - J.
7. Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple - complex and hypercomplex cells
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Milgram - S.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
8. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism
Festinger - L.
Zajonc. R.
Swets - John A.
Eysenck - H.
9. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law
Stevens - S. S.
Gardner - H.
Kelly - G.
Skinner - B.F.
10. Studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information or by asking misleading questions
Loftus - E.
Chomsky - N.
Stevens - S. S.
Thorndike - E.
11. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory
Asch - S.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Newcomb - T.
12. Developed principles of operant conditioning; _______ Box (rats)
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Erikson - E.
Skinner - B.F.
Wernicke - C.
13. Studied political norms
Thurstone - L.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
Newcomb - T.
Horney - K.
14. Studied the capacity of sensory memory using the partial-report method
Eagly - A.
Sternberg - R.
Sperling - G.
Hovland - C.
15. Phenomenological theorist who found empathy - congruence - and unconditional positive regards to be important aspects; person-centered
Festinger - L.
Freud - A.
Fechner - G.
Rogers - C.
16. Object-relations theorist
Cattell - R.
Mahler - M.
Hering - E.
Maslow - A.
17. Proposed concept of belief in a just world
Lerner - M.
Janis - I.
Sheldon - W.
Bandura - A.
18. Proposed the James-Lange two-factor theory of emotions
James - W. and Lange - C.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Wilson - E. O.
Asch - S.
19. Developed ______-______ Law which states that performance is best at intermediate levels of arounsal
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Garcia - J.
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
20. Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning; school of Bxiorism founder; stimulus-response chains
McGuire - W.
Broca - P.
Milner - B.
Watson - J.
21. Studied observational learning
Janis - I.
Lewin - K.
Watson - J.
Bandura - A.
22. 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.
Helmholtz - H.
Rogers - C.
Allport - G.
Jung - C.
23. Performed experiements which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theory of classical conditioning
Rescorla - R.
Bandura - A.
Hering - E.
Bartlett - F.
24. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test
Bem - S.
Swets - John A.
Witkin - H.
Miller - G.
25. Studied depth cues (esp. texture gradients) that help us to perceive depths
Pavlov - I.
Freud - A.
Gibson - J.
Kohler - W.
26. Suggested that the brain processes information using parallel distributed processing (PDP)
Watson - J.
Broadbent - D.
Luchins - A.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
27. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning
Bem - S.
Pavlov - I.
Broadbent - D.
Swets - John A.
28. Suggested that individual differences in intelligence were largely due to differences in amount of a general factor called g
Spearman - C.
Bandura - A.
Asch - S.
Hall - E.
29. 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.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
Hering - E.
Lerner - M.
30. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived
Guilford - J.
Luria - A.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Whorf - B.
31. Investigated the use of heuristics in decision making ; studied the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
Klein - M.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Milgram - S.
32. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Cattell - R.
Cannon - W.
Zajonc. R.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
33. Developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory.
Horney - K.
Bem - D.
Broca - P.
Klein - M.
34. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'
Luria - A.
Sherif - M.
Cattell - R.
Kelly - G.
35. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory
James - W. and Lange - C.
Hall - E.
Bekesy -G.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
36. Studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings
Skinner - B.F.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
Garcia - J.
37. Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch perception which - at least partially - supported by Helmholtz'S place-resonance theory
Kernberg - O.
Darwin - C.
Kelly - G.
Bekesy -G.
38. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
Wernicke - C.
James - W. and Lange - C.
Janis - I.
Sherrington - C.
39. 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.
Helmholtz - H.
Asch - S.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
40. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
Fechner - G.
Kandel - E.
Newcomb - T.
41. Developed a list of depth cues that help us to perceive depth
Wolpe - J.
Wernicke - C.
Heider - F.
Berkeley - G.
42. Studied conformity by asking subjects to compare the lengths of lines.
Hall - E.
Asch - S.
Pavlov - I.
Newcomb - T.
43. Demonstrated existence of pleasure center in the brain using 'Self-stimulation' studies in rats
Bandura - A.
Newcomb - T.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Mahler - M.
44. 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.
Lorenz - K.
Sperling - G.
Luria - A.
45. Developed theory of isomorphism
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Lorenz - K.
Kohler - W.
Bekesy -G.
46. Devised the semantic feature-comparison model of semantic memory
Sperling - G.
Maslow - A.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
Freud - A.
47. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems
Sherrington - C.
Sperling - G.
Rotter - J.
Wolpe - J.
48. Used factor analysis to study primary mental abilities - factors more specific than g but more general than s
Thurstone - L.
Freud - S.
Paivio - A.
Kandel - E.
49. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity
Guilford - J.
Lorenz - K.
Klein - M.
Paivio - A.
50. Discovered and studied instinctual drift
Sherrington - C.
Melzack - R. and Wall - P.
Cattell - R.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.