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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






4. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






7. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Studied observational learning






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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






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






34. Studied attitude change






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






36. Proposed filter theory of attention






37. Object-relations theorist






38. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






40. Developed sociobiology






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






42. Studied locus of control






43. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






44. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






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






47. Object-relations theorist






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. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






50. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived







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