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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. Phenomenological theorist who found empathy - congruence - and unconditional positive regards to be important aspects; person-centered






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Suggested _______ Principle: that a more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity






10. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






12. Developed cognitive dissonance theory - also developed social comparison theory






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






14. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






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






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






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






19. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






20. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






22. Object-relations theorist






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






24. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






25. 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.






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






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






28. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Proposed filter theory of attention






38. 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






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






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






41. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






43. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






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






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






49. Developed sociobiology






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