Psychology 360 (Fall, 2015)

(Note: The following is not an exhaustive list of what you should know, but it is a guide to some of the more important experiments/phenomena)

  You should know the following people and phenomena.   Additional terms from the 9th Edition -- though some of these may have been in the earlier edition -- are presented in red font, for those of you relying on the earlier edition...

Levels of Processing:

Names: Anderson & Reder    Baddeley, Papageno, & Vallar    Bower et al.    Bower & Karlin   Bower & Gilligan    Brown & Kulik
Craik & Lockhart    Craik & Watkins    Craik & Tulving    Eich    Eysenck    Eysenck & Eysenck    Fischer & Craik
Godden & Baddeley   Hunt & Einstein    Hunt & Elliot    Klein & Saltz    Hyde & Jenkins    Marian & Neisser   Mauro & Kubovny  
McLaughlin    Morris, Bransford & Franks    Noice     Palmere et al.    Rogers, Kuiper, & Kirker   Smith    Stein & Bransford;    Tulving   
Weaver    Rundus    

Findings: PV    phoneme monitoring task    levels of processing theory     level    orienting task    incidental/intentional  learning    levels effect
maintenance/elaborative rehearsal    cued recall    non-cued recall    distinctiveness theory    von Restorff effect    elaboration theory
orthographic distinctiveness    caricatures    primary distinctiveness    secondary distinctiveness    emotional distinctiveness    flashbulb memories
clustering    processing distinctiveness    precise elaboration    imprecise elaboration    self-reference effect    transfer appropriate processing
Self-generation    relational information   *item specific information    rhyming recognition test    state/mood-dependent learning
encoding specificity    context of encoding\retrieval    problem-oriented acquisition    fact-oriented acquisition
decay   interference    Contextual reinstatement      Recall     Recognition     Recognition failure of recallable items    
distractor recall task
 

Imagery:

Names: Atkinson & Raugh    Banks    Banks & Flora    Bower & Winzenz    Brandimonte & Gerbino     Brooks   
Carpenter & Eisenberg    Chambers & Reisberg    Cech    Johnson, Raye, Wang, & Taylor    Farah    Friedman   
Hegarty    Hyman & Pentland   Kosslyn   Kosslyn, Ball, & Reisser    Lutz & Lutz    Marschark & Hunt    Marschark & Paivio
Mitchell & Richman   Nielsen & Smith    Nickerson & Adams    Paivio    Paivio, Smythe, & Yuille    Posner    Pylyshyn
Reed, Hock, & Lockhead   Roland & Friberg    Rubin & Kontis    Sanders & Shroots    Shepard & Feng    Shepard (and colleagues)
Standing   Stromeyer    Wollen, Weber, & Lowry     Konkle, Brady, Alvarz, & Olivia    

Findings: Structuralists    Behaviorists    verbal knowledge    spatial knowledge    propositional theory    matching task
identity matches    category (name) matches    visual scanning    cognitive maps   
parallel representation    sequential representation 
mental rotation    mental paper folding    selective interference    picture memory   sentence memory    (non-)interactive image
concreteness/abstractness    dual-code theory    verbal memory    imagery memory    relational information   
mnemonic strategies   
keyword method    cerebral blood flow   event related potentials (ERPs)   
visual neglect    visual buffer    attention window    generation effect    reality monitoring    sensory information
contextual information      verification task    bizarreness    mental comparisons (relational judgments)
distance effect    congruity effect   size congruency effect    picture superiority effect    memorial comparisons
perceptual comparisons    discrete code model   expectancy hypothesis    eidetic memory