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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






4. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






13. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






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






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






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






18. Studied observational learning






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






20. Studied political norms






21. Demonstrated existence of pleasure center in the brain using 'Self-stimulation' studies in rats






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






23. Studied attitude change






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






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






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






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






35. Proposed filter theory of attention






36. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






38. Object-relations theorist






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






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






41. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






42. Founder of ego psychology






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






44. Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch perception which - at least partially - supported by Helmholtz'S place-resonance theory






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






46. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






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