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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






2. 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






3. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






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






7. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






9. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






11. Studied political norms






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






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






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






15. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






17. Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism






18. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






19. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






22. Investigated the role of schemata in memory; concluded that memory is largely a reconstructive process.






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






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






25. Object-relations theorist






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






27. Object-relations theorist






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






29. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






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






33. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






36. Object-relations theorist






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






38. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






39. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






42. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






44. Developed sociobiology






45. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






46. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






47. Founder of ego psychology






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






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






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