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GRE Psychology: Important Names
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1. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Kelly - G.
Eagly - A.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
2. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry
Janis - I.
Adler - A.
Swets - John A.
Skinner - B.F.
3. Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization
Witkin - H.
Milner - B.
Bandura - A.
Maslow - A.
4. Behaviorist theorist who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts
Sherif - M.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Helmholtz - H.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
5. Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple - complex and hypercomplex cells
Lerner - M.
Kohler - W.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
6. Behaviorist theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment using punching bag ('Bobo' doll)
Stevens - S. S.
Bandura - A.
Rotter - J.
Gibson - J.
7. Studied severe anterograde amnesia in H.M. - a patient whose hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed surgically to control epilepsy
von Frisch - K.
Winnicott - D.W.
Milner - B.
Newcomb - T.
8. Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the freqency theory of pitch perception
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Kandel - E.
Macoby - E. and Jacklin - C.
Paivio - A.
9. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived
Whorf - B.
Milner - B.
Freud - S.
Klein - M.
10. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan
Erikson - E.
Bekesy -G.
Witkin - H.
Cattell - R.
11. Studied the capacity of sensory memory using the partial-report method
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Sperling - G.
Spearman - C.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
12. Developed principles of operant conditioning; _______ Box (rats)
Lerner - M.
von Frisch - K.
Lorenz - K.
Skinner - B.F.
13. Proposed the law of effect; used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats
Thorndike - E.
Swets - John A.
Jung - C.
Broca - P.
14. Performed experiements which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theory of classical conditioning
Maslow - A.
Rescorla - R.
Bekesy -G.
Cannon - W.
15. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
McClelland - D.
Milner - B.
Schachter - S.
16. Developed Young-_______ trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception
Kernberg - O.
Helmholtz - H.
Berkeley - G.
Ebbinghaus - H.
17. Developed theory of isomorphism
Adler - A.
McGuire - W.
Kohler - W.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
18. Proposed dual-code hypothesis
Skinner - B.F.
Loftus - E.
Paivio - A.
Hubel - D. and Wiesel - T.
19. Studied need for achievement (nAch)
McClelland - D.
von Frisch - K.
Kohler - W.
Penfield - W.
20. Russian neurologist who studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory - motor - and language functions
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Cannon - W.
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Luria - A.
21. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece
Bekesy -G.
Freud - S.
Darwin - C.
Mahler - M.
22. Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning; school of Bxiorism founder; stimulus-response chains
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Schachter - S.
Thurstone - L.
Watson - J.
23. 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.
Fechner - G.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
24. Phenomenological theorist who found empathy - congruence - and unconditional positive regards to be important aspects; person-centered
Newcomb - T.
McClelland - D.
Horney - K.
Rogers - C.
25. Suggested that gender differences in conformity were not due to gender per se - but to differing social roles.
Gardner - H.
Horney - K.
Eagly - A.
Bartlett - F.
26. Physiologist who studied the autonomic nervous system - including 'fight or flight' reactions; investigated homeostasis; and with Bard - proposed _______-Bard theory of emotions
Cannon - W.
Cattell - R.
Freud - A.
Milner - B.
27. French anatomist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with producing spoken language (_____'S Area)
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
Broca - P.
Zajonc. R.
Zimbardo - P.
28. Studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings
Kohler - W.
Ebbinghaus - H.
Pavlov - I.
McClelland - D.
29. Investigated functional differences between left and right cerebral hemispheres using 'Split-brain' studies
Sheldon - W.
Sperry - R. and Gazzaniga - M.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Chomsky - N.
30. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations
Janis - I.
Bandura - A.
Sherif - M.
Tinbergen - N.
31. Studied political norms
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Newcomb - T.
Berkeley - G.
32. Suggested that individual differences in intelligence were largely due to differences in amount of a general factor called g
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
Spearman - C.
Gardner - H.
Luria - A.
33. Investigated the use of heuristics in decision making ; studied the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic
Pavlov - I.
Kahneman - D. and Tversky - A.
Tinbergen - N.
Zajonc. R.
34. Proposed a theory of multiple intelligences that divides intelligence into seven different types - all of which are equally important; traditional IQ tests measure only two of the seven types
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
Adler - A.
Gardner - H.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
35. German neurologist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with understanding spoken language (_______'S Area)
Watson - J.
Schachter - S.
Wernicke - C.
Miller - G.
36. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory
James - W. and Lange - C.
Lewin - K.
Bandura - A.
Helmholtz - H.
37. Studied depth cues (esp. texture gradients) that help us to perceive depths
Gibson - J.
Mischel - W.
Clark - K. - Clark - M.
Dollard - J. and Miller - N.
38. Distinguished between the surface structure and deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one sentence into another
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Spearman - C.
Chomsky - N.
Gibson - E. and Walk - R.
39. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test
Breland - K. and Breland - M.
Freud - A.
Witkin - H.
Helmholtz - H.
40. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory
Kohler - W.
Schachter - S.
Craik - F. and Lockhart - R.
Horney - K.
41. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems
Sherrington - C.
Wolpe - J.
McClelland - J. and Rumelhart - D.
Hering - E.
42. Developed ______-______ Law which states that performance is best at intermediate levels of arounsal
Yerkes - R. and Dodson - J.
Smith - E. -Shoben - E. - and Rips - L.
Allport - G.
Rescorla - R.
43. 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.
Erikson - E.
Cattell - R.
Jung - C.
Schachter - S. and Singer - J.
44. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items
Freud - S.
Cattell - R.
Wever - E. and Bray - C.
Miller - G.
45. Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion)
Thurstone - L.
Petty - R. - Cacioppo - J.
Hovland - C.
Darley - J. - Latane - B.
46. Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber'S Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation
Kohler - W.
Bartlett - F.
Sherif - M.
Freud - S.
47. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny
Loftus - E.
Bem - S.
Milgram - S.
Rogers - C.
48. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory
Luria - A.
Collins - A. and Loftus - E.
Mischel - W.
Zimbardo - P.
49. Object-relations theorist
Winnicott - D.W.
Luria - A.
Skinner - B.F.
Freud - A.
50. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission
Rescorla - R.
Miller - G.
Kandel - E.
Adler - A.