[3][2] He attended Stuyvesant High School,[2] then City College of New York, graduating in 1945 with an undergraduate degree in physics.
[4] At Berkeley, he was taught by influential figures like Edward Tolman, Egon Brunswik, and Gordon Lynn Walls.
[5] According to The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences: Hochberg was a leading experimentalist and theoretician in visual perception for half a century.
[5] In the 1950s, Hochberg led a study that examined how college students judged qualities like cuteness and intelligence based on physical features.
Hochberg found that there was an exception to the discrepancies seen in students from different years: judgments of the cuteness of babies tended to remain stable over time.