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GRE Psychology: Important Names

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1. Studied the norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions






2. 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.






3. Outlined eight stages of psychosocial development overing the lifespan






4. Ethologists who introduced experimental methods into field situations






5. Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning






6. Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees






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






8. Studied relationship between anxiety and the need for affiliation






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






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






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






12. Critic of trait theories of personality






13. Founder of ego psychology






14. Psychodynamic theorist best known for concept of inferiority complex






15. English physiologist who first inferred the existence of synapse






16. Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory






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






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






19. Studied attitude change






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






21. Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality






22. Proposed gate theory of pain






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






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






25. Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion






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






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






28. Ethologists who studied unlearned - instinctual bxs in the natural environment






29. 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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. Originator of psychodynamic approach to personality






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






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






40. Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch perception which - at least partially - supported by Helmholtz'S place-resonance theory






41. Object-relations theorist






42. Proposed concept of belief in a just world






43. Proposed filter theory of attention






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






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






46. Object-relations theorist






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






48. Studied need for achievement (nAch)






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






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