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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Proposed filter theory of attention






3. 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.






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






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






6. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






9. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






10. Studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions in monkeys resulting from damage to temporal lobes; also studied in amygdala'S role in emotions






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






19. Used factor analysis to study primary mental abilities - factors more specific than g but more general than s






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






21. Object-relations theorist






22. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






24. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






28. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






31. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






32. Studied attitude change






33. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






35. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






37. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






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






40. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization






46. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






47. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






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