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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






4. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






5. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Studied attitude change






11. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






13. 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






14. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






16. Object-relations theorist






17. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






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






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






22. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






24. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Studied locus of control






44. Developed sociobiology






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






46. Studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings






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






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






49. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






50. Studied political norms