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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






2. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






5. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






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






7. 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.






8. 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






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






10. Studied insights in problem solving






11. Developed theory of isomorphism






12. Developed sociobiology






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






22. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






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






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






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






28. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






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






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






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






34. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






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






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






38. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






41. Studied attitude change






42. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






43. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






46. Studied locus of control






47. Object-relations theorist






48. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






49. Developed the visual cliff apparatus - which is used to study the development of depth perception






50. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations