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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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






6. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






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






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






11. Object-relations theorist






12. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






14. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






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






18. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






19. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






32. Object-relations theorist






33. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






34. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






35. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






36. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






37. Studied insights in problem solving






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. Studied observational learning






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






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






48. Studied political norms






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






50. Object-relations theorist