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GRE Psychology: Important Names
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1. Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization
Schachter - S.
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Maslow - A.
Newcomb - T.
2. Object-relations theorist
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Kernberg - O.
Bekesy -G.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
3. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems
Rotter - J.
Witkin - H.
Wolpe - J.
Asch - S.
4. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny
Kohler - W.
Penfield - W.
Bem - S.
Helmholtz - H.
5. Devised the semantic feature-comparison model of semantic memory
Tinbergen - N.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
McGuire - W.
Pavlov - I.
6. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
Allport - G.
James - W. and Lange - C.
Mischel - W.
Heider - F.
7. Studied severe anterograde amnesia in H.M. - a patient whose hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed surgically to control epilepsy
Sheldon - W.
Milner - B.
Bem - D.
Allport - G.
8. Operant conditioning pioneers worked with pigeons and mice in operant chambers
Kelly - G.
Whorf - B.
Skinner - B.F.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
9. Proposed the law of effect; used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats
Klein - M.
Thorndike - E.
Freud - S.
Sherrington - C.
10. Developed ________ Law - which expresses the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of the sensation
Wolpe - J.
Gibson - J.
Luchins - A.
Fechner - G.
11. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees
Bem - D.
Maslow - A.
von Frisch - K.
Heider - F.
12. Russian neurologist who studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory - motor - and language functions
Luria - A.
Tinbergen - N.
Hovland - C.
Bartlett - F.
13. Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion)
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Lorenz - K.
Luchins - A.
Stevens - S. S.
14. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
Kohler - W.
Janis - I.
Freud - A.
Wilson - E. O.
15. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation
Guilford - J.
Schachter - S.
Skinner - B.F.
Wolpe - J.
16. Performed experiements which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theory of classical conditioning
Freud - A.
Lerner - M.
Rescorla - R.
Stevens - S. S.
17. Discovered and studied instinctual drift
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Adler - A.
18. Studied political norms
Newcomb - T.
Olds - J. - and Milner - P.
Festinger - L.
Wolpe - J.
19. Studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information or by asking misleading questions
Hering - E.
Loftus - E.
Witkin - H.
Thorndike - E.
20. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Cattell - R.
McGuire - W.
Horney - K.
21. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory
Jung - C.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Lewin - K.
Luria - A.
22. Behaviorist theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment using punching bag ('Bobo' doll)
Broadbent - D.
Bandura - A.
Janis - I.
Thurstone - L.
23. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory
Rescorla - R.
Swets - John A.
Milgram - S.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
24. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment
Horney - K.
Jung - C.
McGuire - W.
Lorenz - K.
25. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test
Cannon - W.
Kluver - H. and Bucy - P.
Horney - K.
Witkin - H.
26. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
von Frisch - K.
Bartlett - F.
Kohler - W.
27. Studied obedience by asking subjects to administer electroshock; proposed stimulus-overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers
Milgram - S.
Janis - I.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Bem - S.
28. 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.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Swets - John A.
Luria - A.
Jung - C.
29. Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple - complex and hypercomplex cells
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Adler - A.
Garcia - J.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
30. Studied depth cues (esp. texture gradients) that help us to perceive depths
Mischel - W.
Gibson - J.
Wilson - E. O.
Sperling - G.
31. Object-relations theorist
Wernicke - C.
Skinner - B.F.
Darwin - C.
Winnicott - D.W.
32. Developed Young-_______ trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception
Stevens - S. S.
Helmholtz - H.
Bem - D.
Klein - M.
33. Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the freqency theory of pitch perception
Wilson - E. O.
Rotter - J.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Berkeley - G.
34. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece
Darwin - C.
Festinger - L.
Paivio - A.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
35. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law
Stevens - S. S.
Gibson - J.
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Thorndike - E.
36. 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.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Witkin - H.
von Frisch - K.
37. Suggested _______ Principle: that a more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity
Wernicke - C.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Premack - D.
Watson - J.
38. Developed sociobiology
Bandura - A.
Wilson - E. O.
Kohler - W.
Zajonc. R.
39. Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type
Guilford - J.
Pavlov - I.
Sheldon - W.
Mahler - M.
40. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability
Winnicott - D.W.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
Bandura - A.
Darwin - C.
41. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion
Hering - E.
McGuire - W.
Cattell - R.
Broadbent - D.
42. Suggested that the brain processes information using parallel distributed processing (PDP)
von Frisch - K.
Aronson - E. - Linder - D.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Swets - John A.
43. Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber'S Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation
Luria - A.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Cattell - R.
Sherif - M.
44. Investigated the use of heuristics in decision making ; studied the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
Kohler - W.
Sternberg - R.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Lewin - K.
45. Performed prison simulation and used concept of deindividuation to explain results
Zimbardo - P.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Chomsky - N.
Milner - B.
46. Founder of ego psychology
Freud - A.
Watson - J.
Allport - G.
Ebbinghaus - H.
47. Object-relations theorist
Premack - D.
Klein - M.
Darwin - C.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
48. Behaviorist theorist who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts
McClelland - D.
Luchins - A.
Wolpe - J.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
49. Canadian neurosurgeon who used electrodes and electrical stimulation techniques to 'map' out different parts of the brain during surgery
Penfield - W.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
Premack - D.
Loftus - E.
50. Studied the capacity of sensory memory using the partial-report method
von Frisch - K.
Sperling - G.
Paivio - A.
Jung - C.