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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






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






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






7. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






8. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






10. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






11. 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.






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






13. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






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






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






17. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Object-relations theorist






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






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






28. Object-relations theorist






29. Studied severe anterograde amnesia in H.M. - a patient whose hippocampus and temporal lobes were removed surgically to control epilepsy






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






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






32. Developed theory of isomorphism






33. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






35. Studied locus of control






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






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






38. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






49. Proposed filter theory of attention






50. Studied insights in problem solving







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