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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






2. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






3. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






4. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






11. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






12. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Developed theory of isomorphism






26. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






30. Proposed the law of effect; used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats






31. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






34. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






37. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






40. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






42. Studied political norms






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






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






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






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






47. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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