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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Proposed a theory of multiple intelligences that divides intelligence into seven different types - all of which are equally important; traditional IQ tests measure only two of the seven types






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






26. 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.






27. Developed sociobiology






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






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






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






31. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






32. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






33. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






34. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






37. Studied political norms






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






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






40. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






41. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






44. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






45. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






48. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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