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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the freqency theory of pitch perception






9. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






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






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






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






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






15. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






17. Developed theory of isomorphism






18. Proposed dual-code hypothesis






19. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






31. Studied political norms






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






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






34. 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






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






36. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






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






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






41. Developed method of systematic desensitization to eliminate problems






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. Devised the spreading activation model of semantic memory






49. Object-relations theorist






50. Demonstrated that simple learning bx in sea snails (Aplysia) is associated with changes in neurotransmission