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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






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






5. Studied attitude change






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






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






8. Founder of ego psychology






9. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






12. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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






15. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






18. Object-relations theorist






19. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






21. Studied locus of control






22. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Studied political norms






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






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






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






43. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






44. Object-relations theorist






45. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






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






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






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






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







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