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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied political norms






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






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






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






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






6. Psychodynamic theorist who suggested that there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward - moving against - moving away from






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






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






9. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






11. Studied insights in problem solving






12. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






13. Studied locus of control






14. 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.






15. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






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






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






20. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






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






24. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






26. Object-relations theorist






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






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






29. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






31. 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






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






33. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






35. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






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






38. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






40. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






49. Studied attitude change






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