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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






2. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






5. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






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






10. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






12. Studied observational learning






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






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






25. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






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






29. Object-relations theorist






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






31. Object-relations theorist






32. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






34. Developed sociobiology






35. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






40. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






50. Studied insights in problem solving