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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






2. Studied insights in problem solving






3. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






5. Studied the mere exposure effect; also resolved problems with the social facilitation effect by suggesting that the presence of others enhances the emission of dominant responses and impairs the emission of nondominant responses






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






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






8. Critic of trait theories of personality






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






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






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






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






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






14. Trait theorist known for concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Hypothesized that language determines how reality is perceived






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






25. Object-relations theorist






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






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






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






29. Developed opponent process theory of color vision






30. Studied political norms






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






41. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






42. Object-relations theorist






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






44. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






46. Developed sociobiology






47. 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






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






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






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