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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






3. Studied locus of control






4. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






5. 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.






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






7. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






8. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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






11. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






13. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






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






17. Studied attitude change






18. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






21. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






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






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






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






26. Object-relations theorist






27. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






30. Object-relations theorist






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






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






33. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions in monkeys resulting from damage to temporal lobes; also studied in amygdala'S role in emotions






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






42. Developed theory of isomorphism






43. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






46. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






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






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