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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






3. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






4. Studied attitude change






5. Developed sociobiology






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






7. 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






8. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






10. Object-relations theorist






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






12. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






13. Demonstrated existence of pleasure center in the brain using 'Self-stimulation' studies in rats






14. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test






15. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






16. Investigated the use of heuristics in decision making ; studied the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic






17. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






18. Studied obedience by asking subjects to administer electroshock; proposed stimulus-overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers






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






20. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






21. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






23. Proposed filter theory of attention






24. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






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






29. Studied severe anterograde amnesia in H.M. - a patient whose hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed surgically to control epilepsy






30. Distinguished between the surface structure and deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one sentence into another






31. Critic of trait theories of personality






32. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






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






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






36. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






37. Propsed gain-loss principle (an evaluation that changes will have more effect thatn an evaluation that remains constant)






38. 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.






39. Physiologist who studied the autonomic nervous system - including 'fight or flight' reactions; investigated homeostasis; and with Bard - proposed _______-Bard theory of emotions






40. Founder of ego psychology






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






46. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






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






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