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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






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






4. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






7. Studied locus of control






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






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






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






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






13. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






15. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






17. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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






22. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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






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






26. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






28. Proposed filter theory of attention






29. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






32. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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






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






36. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






37. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






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






42. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






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






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. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






49. Proposed gate theory of pain






50. Critic of trait theories of personality