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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






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






6. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






10. Developed sociobiology






11. Studied observational learning






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






13. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






15. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






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






19. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






20. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






21. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






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






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






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






26. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






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. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






31. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






33. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






38. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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






42. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






45. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






47. 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






48. Studied political norms






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






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







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