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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






2. Developed Young-_______ trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception






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






4. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






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






8. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality. Divided intelligence into fluid and crystallized and looked at how they change throughout the lifespan






9. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






10. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Studied obedience by asking subjects to administer electroshock; proposed stimulus-overload theory to explain differences between city and country dwellers






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






21. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






22. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






23. 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.






24. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






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






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






27. Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry






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






29. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






30. Founder of ego psychology






31. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






35. Studied political norms






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






37. Object-relations theorist






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






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






41. Object-relations theorist






42. Studied observational learning






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






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






45. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






46. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






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






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