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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






4. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






5. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan






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






7. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






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






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






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






13. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






14. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






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






17. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






26. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






28. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






40. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






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






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






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






44. Object-relations theorist






45. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






46. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






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






50. Studied political norms