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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






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






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






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






13. Object-relations theorist






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






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






16. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






19. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






20. Studied attitude change






21. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






27. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






28. Developed sociobiology






29. Studied political norms






30. Object-relations theorist






31. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






41. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






42. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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






45. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






47. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






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






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