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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






6. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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. Object-relations theorist






9. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






10. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece






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






12. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






14. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






15. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






16. Studied attitude change






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






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






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






20. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






21. Studied locus of control






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






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






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






25. Developed theory of isomorphism






26. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






28. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






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






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






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






34. Suggested that masculinity and femininity were two separate dimensions; concept of androgyny






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






36. Studied insights in problem solving






37. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






38. Object-relations theorist






39. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






50. Discovered and studied instinctual drift