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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






5. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






7. Developed sociobiology






8. 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.






9. Studied political norms






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






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






12. 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.






13. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






14. Studied observational learning






15. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






17. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






18. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






20. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






22. 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






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






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






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






26. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






29. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






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






33. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






34. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






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






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






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






40. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






43. Studied attitude change






44. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






48. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






49. Proposed theory of evolution and natural selection as its centerpiece






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