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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Developed sociobiology






2. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






5. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny






6. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






7. Studied taste aversion learning and proposed that some species are biologically prepared to learn connections between certain stimuli






8. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






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






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






13. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






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






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






18. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






19. 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






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






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






22. Studied insights in problem solving






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






24. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






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






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






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






30. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






32. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






34. 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.






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






36. Studied observational learning






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






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






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






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






41. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






44. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






46. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






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






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