(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)
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
Findings: Structuralists Behaviorists verbal knowledge spatial knowledge propositional theory matching task
identity matches category 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