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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






4. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






5. Developed self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory.






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






7. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






9. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. Studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information or by asking misleading questions






15. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






16. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






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






20. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






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






23. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






24. 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






25. Object-relations theorist






26. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






28. Object-relations theorist






29. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






31. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






32. Founder of ego psychology






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






34. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






37. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






38. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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






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






42. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






43. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






45. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






48. Proposed filter theory of attention






49. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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