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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






2. Studied memory using nonsense syllables and the method of savings






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






4. Operant conditioning pioneers worked with pigeons and mice in operant chambers






5. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. Developed sociobiology






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






16. Proposed the law of effect; used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats






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






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






19. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






21. 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.






22. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






24. Studied political norms






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






26. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






28. 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






29. Studied observational learning






30. Studied insights in problem solving






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






32. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






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






35. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






46. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






49. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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