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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






2. 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






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






4. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






8. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






16. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






18. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






19. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






20. 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.






21. Studied attitude change






22. Object-relations theorist






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






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






25. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






38. Object-relations theorist






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






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






41. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






42. Studied observational learning






43. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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






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






48. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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







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