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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






3. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






4. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






7. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






8. Developed ______-______ Law which states that performance is best at intermediate levels of arounsal






9. Studied locus of control






10. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






14. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






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






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






19. Developed ______ law as an alternative to Fechner'S Law






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






28. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






29. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






30. Studied the mere exposure effect; also resolved problems with the social facilitation effect by suggesting that the presence of others enhances the emission of dominant responses and impairs the emission of nondominant responses






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






32. Propsed gain-loss principle (an evaluation that changes will have more effect thatn an evaluation that remains constant)






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






34. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






40. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






43. Object-relations theorist






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






45. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






46. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






48. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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