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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. Object-relations theorist






3. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






6. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality






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






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






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






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






11. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






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






15. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






17. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






18. Studied political norms






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






20. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






21. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






23. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






25. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test






26. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.






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






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






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






31. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






38. Developed sociobiology






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






40. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






41. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






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






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






46. Founder of ego psychology






47. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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