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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Developed a list of depth cues that help us to perceive depth






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






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






5. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






9. Studied insights in problem solving






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






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






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






13. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






15. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






17. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






20. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






22. 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.






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






24. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






25. French anatomist who identified the part of the brain primarily associated with producing spoken language (_____'S Area)






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






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






28. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






29. Studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test






30. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






31. Developed theory of isomorphism






32. Studied locus of control






33. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






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






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






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






38. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






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






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






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






44. Studied attitude change






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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. Proposed filter theory of attention