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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Critic of trait theories of personality






2. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






3. Object-relations theorist






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






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






6. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






7. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






16. Developed theory of isomorphism






17. Object-relations theorist






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






19. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






20. Object-relations theorist






21. Studied political norms






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






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






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






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






35. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






36. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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






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






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






42. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






44. Founder of ego psychology






45. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






47. 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.






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






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






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