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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






3. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






4. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






7. 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






8. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






11. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






13. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






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






15. Proposed gate theory of pain






16. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






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






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






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






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






21. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






22. Object-relations theorist






23. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






25. Object-relations theorist






26. Found support for gender differences in verbal ability






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






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






29. Developed theory of isomorphism






30. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






31. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






32. 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






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






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






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






36. Studied political norms






37. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






40. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






41. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






47. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






48. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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







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