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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






4. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






7. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






9. Demonstrated existence of pleasure center in the brain using 'Self-stimulation' studies in rats






10. Studied locus of control






11. Object-relations theorist






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






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






14. Studied political norms






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






20. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






21. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






23. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






36. Studied observational learning






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






45. Object-relations theorist






46. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






47. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






48. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






50. Proposed filter theory of attention