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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. 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






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






3. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






4. Studied political norms






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






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






7. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






10. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






11. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






12. Object-relations theorist






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






14. Demonstrated existence of pleasure center in the brain using 'Self-stimulation' studies in rats






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






16. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






17. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






19. Studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions in monkeys resulting from damage to temporal lobes; also studied in amygdala'S role in emotions






20. Developed theory of isomorphism






21. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Object-relations theorist






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






31. Developed sociobiology






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






33. 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.






34. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






35. Studied attitude change






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






37. Studied observational learning






38. Founder of ego psychology






39. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






41. 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.






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






43. Studied locus of control






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






45. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






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






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






50. Proposed dual-code hypothesis