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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






3. Object-relations theorist






4. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






5. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






6. Studied insights in problem solving






7. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






8. Proposed filter theory of attention






9. Studied political norms






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






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






12. Object-relations theorist






13. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






14. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test






15. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






17. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






18. 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.






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






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






21. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






23. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






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






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






29. Studied observational learning






30. Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






42. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






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






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






47. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






49. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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