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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Developed a list of depth cues that help us to perceive depth






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






4. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






5. Studied locus of control






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






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






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






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






10. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






11. Studied observational learning






12. Object-relations theorist






13. 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.






14. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






16. Developed sociobiology






17. 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






18. Studied insights in problem solving






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. Object-relations theorist






24. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






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






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






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






29. Studied attitude change






30. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






32. Founder of ego psychology






33. Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the freqency theory of pitch perception






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






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






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






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






38. Proposed gate theory of pain






39. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






42. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






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






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






47. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






50. Proposed concept of belief in a just world