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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






5. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






6. 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.






7. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






10. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






12. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






13. Developed sociobiology






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






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






16. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






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






18. Developed the levels-of-processing theory of memory as an alternative to the stage theory of memory






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






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






21. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






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






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






26. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






27. Based personality theory on the notion of 'individual as scientist'






28. Object-relations theorist






29. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






30. Studied observational learning






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






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






33. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






42. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






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






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






47. Object-relations theorist






48. Studied loss of normal fear and rage reactions in monkeys resulting from damage to temporal lobes; also studied in amygdala'S role in emotions






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






50. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability