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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






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






4. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






5. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






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






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






10. Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber'S Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






20. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. Studied eyewitness memory and concluded that our memories can be altered by presenting new information or by asking misleading questions






27. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






29. Object-relations theorist






30. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






33. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






34. Founder of ego psychology






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






36. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






37. Studied observational learning






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






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






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






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






42. Developed sociobiology






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






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






45. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






46. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






48. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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