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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






2. Object-relations theorist






3. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






4. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






5. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






7. Developed sociobiology






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






9. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






12. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






13. Proposed gate theory of pain






14. Proposed the law of effect; used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats






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






16. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






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






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






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






22. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






23. Studied attitude change






24. Studied political norms






25. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






26. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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






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






30. Critic of trait theories of personality






31. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






39. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






41. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






44. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






48. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






50. Proposed dual-code hypothesis