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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






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






14. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






16. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment






17. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






28. 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






29. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






31. Developed sociobiology






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






33. Object-relations theorist






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






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






36. Studied observational learning






37. Founder of ego psychology






38. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Studied attitude change






46. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






49. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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