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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. Founder of ego psychology






7. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






10. Studied locus of control






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






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






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






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






15. Studied observational learning






16. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






18. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






19. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






22. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception






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






24. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






25. 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.






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






27. Object-relations theorist






28. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






31. Developed theory of isomorphism






32. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






33. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






36. Investigated functional differences between left and right cerebral hemispheres using 'Split-brain' studies






37. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






41. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






43. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






44. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






45. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






46. Proposed a theory of multiple intelligences that divides intelligence into seven different types - all of which are equally important; traditional IQ tests measure only two of the seven types






47. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






48. Studied political norms






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






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