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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






2. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






5. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






6. Studied political norms






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






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






9. 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.






10. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






11. Object-relations theorist






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






13. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






14. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






16. Developed theory of isomorphism






17. Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning; school of Bxiorism founder; stimulus-response chains






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






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






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






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






22. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






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






26. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Founder of ego psychology






40. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






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






44. Studied insights in problem solving






45. Object-relations theorist






46. 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






47. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






49. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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