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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






4. Studied conformity by asking subjects to compare the lengths of lines.






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






6. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






14. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






15. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






17. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






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






22. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






23. Studied insights in problem solving






24. Object-relations theorist






25. 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






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






27. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory






28. Developed sociobiology






29. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






30. Studied political norms






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






32. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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






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






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






38. Object-relations theorist






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






40. Critic of trait theories of personality






41. Object-relations theorist






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






50. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse