Test your basic knowledge |

GRE Psychology: Important Names

Subjects : gre, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. German neurologist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with understanding spoken language (_______'S Area)






2. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






3. Developed cognitive dissonance theory - also developed social comparison theory






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






5. Studied attitude change






6. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






7. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






10. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






19. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






20. Studied political norms






21. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






23. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






24. Critic of trait theories of personality






25. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






27. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






28. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






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






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






34. Performed study on doll preferences in African-American children; the results were used in the 1954 Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court case.






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






36. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






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






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






41. Object-relations theorist






42. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'






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