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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






9. 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






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






11. Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning; school of Bxiorism founder; stimulus-response chains






12. Founder of ego psychology






13. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






14. 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






15. Object-relations theorist






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






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






18. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






19. Studied political norms






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






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






22. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






24. Developed sociobiology






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






26. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






28. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






29. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






31. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






33. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






34. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






36. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






37. Object-relations theorist






38. Studied locus of control






39. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






40. Proposed the James-Lange two-factor theory of emotions






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. Proposed filter theory of attention






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