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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






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






5. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






8. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






24. 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.






25. Studied political norms






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






27. Object-relations theorist






28. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






30. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






31. 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






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






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






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






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. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






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






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






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






41. Studied observational learning






42. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






45. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






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