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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






2. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






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






5. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






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






9. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






10. German neurologist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with understanding spoken language (_______'S Area)






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






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






13. Object-relations theorist






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






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






16. Studied locus of control






17. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






18. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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 observational learning






21. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






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






25. Proposed filter theory of attention






26. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






27. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






28. Phenomenological theorist who found empathy - congruence - and unconditional positive regards to be important aspects; person-centered






29. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






32. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






34. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






35. Developed sociobiology






36. 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.






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






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






39. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






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






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






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






45. Investigated functional differences between left and right cerebral hemispheres using 'Split-brain' studies






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






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






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






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






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