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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied locus of control






2. Developed balance theory to explain why attitudes change; also developed attribution theory and divided attributions into two categories: dispositional and situational






3. Critic of trait theories of personality






4. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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






8. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






9. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






11. Proposed triarchic theory that divides intelligence into three types: componential - experiential - and contextual






12. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






13. Proposed gate theory of pain






14. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






15. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






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






19. Canadian neurosurgeon who used electrodes and electrical stimulation techniques to 'map' out different parts of the brain during surgery






20. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






21. Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch perception which - at least partially - supported by Helmholtz'S place-resonance theory






22. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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.






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






25. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






26. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






29. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory






30. Proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non-helping: social influence and diffusion of responsibility






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






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






33. Used factor analysis to study primary mental abilities - factors more specific than g but more general than s






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






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






36. Developed sociobiology






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






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






39. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






42. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






43. Studied political norms






44. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






46. Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber'S Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation






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






48. Developed ______-______ Law which states that performance is best at intermediate levels of arounsal






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






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