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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Founder of ego psychology






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






4. Developed theory of isomorphism






5. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






6. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






7. Studied attitude change






8. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test






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






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






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






12. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism






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






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






15. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






17. Studied observational learning






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






19. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






20. 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






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






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






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






24. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Proposed gate theory of pain






34. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






37. Studied political norms






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






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






40. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






41. Object-relations theorist






42. Studied locus of control






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






44. Physiologist who studied the autonomic nervous system - including 'fight or flight' reactions; investigated homeostasis; and with Bard - proposed _______-Bard theory of emotions






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






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






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






48. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






49. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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