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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






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






6. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






10. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






12. Proposed filter theory of attention






13. Studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions in monkeys resulting from damage to temporal lobes; also studied in amygdala'S role in emotions






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






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






16. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'






17. Proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non-helping: social influence and diffusion of responsibility






18. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






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






22. Proposed gate theory of pain






23. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






31. Developed theory of isomorphism






32. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






34. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






36. Studied insights in problem solving






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






38. Critic of trait theories of personality






39. 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.






40. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






45. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






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






49. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






50. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability