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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






2. Studied insights in problem solving






3. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






5. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






7. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






8. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






21. Object-relations theorist






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






23. Discovered and studied instinctual drift






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






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






26. 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.






27. Developed theory of isomorphism






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






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






30. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






37. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. Studied political norms






47. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






48. Object-relations theorist






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






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