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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






5. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






6. Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type






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






8. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






11. Object-relations theorist






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






13. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






15. 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.






16. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






18. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






20. Object-relations theorist






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






22. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






24. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






26. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






27. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






30. Proposed the James-Lange two-factor theory of emotions






31. Studied attitude change






32. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






43. Critic of trait theories of personality






44. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






47. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






49. Studied insights in problem solving






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