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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






3. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






5. 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.






6. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






7. Proposed filter theory of attention






8. 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






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






10. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






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






12. Canadian neurosurgeon who used electrodes and electrical stimulation techniques to 'map' out different parts of the brain during surgery






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






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






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






16. Studied political norms






17. Studied locus of control






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






19. Critic of trait theories of personality






20. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






30. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






31. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Studied attitude change






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






48. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






50. Object-relations theorist






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