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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Object-relations theorist






2. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






4. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






5. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






6. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






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






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






9. Studied observational learning






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






11. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






12. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






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






14. Studied political norms






15. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






18. Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory






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






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






21. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






22. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






25. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






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






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






28. Proposed gate theory of pain






29. Suggested that the brain processes information using parallel distributed processing (PDP)






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






31. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






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






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






34. Attempted to relate somatotype (body type) to personality type






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






36. Studied insights in problem solving






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






38. 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.






39. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






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






42. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






43. Devised divergent thinking test to measure creativity






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory