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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied attitude change






2. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






9. Object-relations theorist






10. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






12. Studied political norms






13. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






15. Founder of ego psychology






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






17. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






27. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






30. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






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






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






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






43. Suggested _______ Principle: that a more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






50. Developed theory of isomorphism