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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






2. 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.






3. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






4. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






7. Studied observational learning






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






9. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






10. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






13. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






15. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






16. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






27. Object-relations theorist






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






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






30. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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






34. Object-relations theorist






35. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






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






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






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






41. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






43. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






44. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






47. Founder of ego psychology






48. 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.






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






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