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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






13. Critic of trait theories of personality






14. Propsed gain-loss principle (an evaluation that changes will have more effect thatn an evaluation that remains constant)






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






16. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






18. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






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






22. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






25. Object-relations theorist






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






27. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






30. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






31. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






34. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






35. Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






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






47. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






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