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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. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






3. Studied insights in problem solving






4. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






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






8. Studied the mere exposure effect; also resolved problems with the social facilitation effect by suggesting that the presence of others enhances the emission of dominant responses and impairs the emission of nondominant responses






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






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. Object-relations theorist






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






13. Studied locus of control






14. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






16. Found that the capacity of short-term memory is seven (plus or minus two) items






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






25. Proposed filter theory of attention






26. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






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






30. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






31. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






33. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






34. 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.






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






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






37. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






38. 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






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






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






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






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






43. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






46. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






47. Performed prison simulation and used concept of deindividuation to explain results






48. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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