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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






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






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






6. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






7. 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.






8. Studied observational learning






9. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






10. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






12. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






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






15. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






17. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






20. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






22. Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber'S Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation






23. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






26. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






29. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






30. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






31. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Object-relations theorist






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






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






41. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






43. 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






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






45. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






47. Developed theory of isomorphism






48. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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