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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry






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






3. Used the water-jar problem to study the effect of mental sets on problem solving






4. Suggested that gender differences in conformity were not due to gender per se - but to differing social roles.






5. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






6. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






9. Studied insights in problem solving






10. Russian neurologist who studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory - motor - and language functions






11. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






13. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






14. Operant conditioning pioneers worked with pigeons and mice in operant chambers






15. Behaviorist theorist who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts






16. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






17. Suggested _______ Principle: that a more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity






18. Object-relations theorist






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






20. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






22. 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






23. French anatomist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with producing spoken language (_____'S Area)






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






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






26. Developed sociobiology






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






28. Studied attitude change






29. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion)






35. Studied political norms






36. Founder of ego psychology






37. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






38. Suggested that individual differences in intelligence were largely due to differences in amount of a general factor called g






39. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






41. Object-relations theorist






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






43. Developed ________ Law - which expresses the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of the sensation






44. Investigated functional differences between left and right cerebral hemispheres using 'Split-brain' studies






45. Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type






46. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece






47. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






48. Studied the capacity of sensory memory using the partial-report method






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






50. 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.