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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Proposed the law of effect; used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats






2. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law






3. Object-relations theorist






4. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'






5. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.






6. 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.






7. Studied depth cues (esp. texture gradients) that help us to perceive depths






8. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






9. Object-relations theorist






10. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism






11. 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.






12. Studied political norms






13. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






14. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






15. Suggested that the brain processes information using parallel distributed processing (PDP)






16. Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization






17. Proposed the Schachter-Singer two-factory theory of emotions






18. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny






19. Devised the semantic feature-comparison model of semantic memory






20. Behaviorist theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment using punching bag ('Bobo' doll)






21. Studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions in monkeys resulting from damage to temporal lobes; also studied in amygdala'S role in emotions






22. Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the freqency theory of pitch perception






23. Developed Young-_______ trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception






24. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






25. 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






26. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission






27. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality






28. Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning; school of Bxiorism founder; stimulus-response chains






29. Developed a list of depth cues that help us to perceive depth






30. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan






31. Developed principles of operant conditioning; _______ Box (rats)






32. Studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings






33. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






34. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment






35. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items






36. Studied observational learning






37. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






38. Phenomenological theorist who found empathy - congruence - and unconditional positive regards to be important aspects; person-centered






39. German neurologist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with understanding spoken language (_______'S Area)






40. Studied conformity by asking subjects to compare the lengths of lines.






41. Proposed the James-Lange two-factor theory of emotions






42. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






43. Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple - complex and hypercomplex cells






44. Performed experiements which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theory of classical conditioning






45. Critic of trait theories of personality






46. Performed prison simulation and used concept of deindividuation to explain results






47. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception






48. Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward - moving against - moving away from






49. Studied locus of control






50. Developed cognitive dissonance theory - also developed social comparison theory