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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






4. Russian neurologist who studied how brain damage leads to impairment in sensory - motor - and language functions






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






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






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






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






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






10. Studied locus of control






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Object-relations theorist






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






23. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






25. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






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






29. Developed sociobiology






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






31. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. Studied observational learning






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






37. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






41. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






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






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






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






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






47. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






50. Proposed dual-code hypothesis