Psychology 360 (Fall, 2007)

(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)
 

Categorization:

Names: Ahn (and colleagues) Barsalou    Barsalou & Sewell    Bourne    Bruner, Goodnow, & Austin
Cantor (and colleagues)    Estes    Farah & McClelland    Labov    Levine Malt
Medin & Shaffer   Medin & Shoben    Murphy & Medin    Posner & Keele    Rosch    Rosch & Mervis    Rosch et al.    Reed
Roth & Shoben    Smith & Minda (and Minda & Smith) Tanaka & Taylor Warrington & Shallice    Wittgenstein

Findings: categorization benefits    classical category/approach    well-defined category    defining feature    necessary feature
rule learning    attribute learning    simple rule    affirmation    denial    H theory    blank trials procedure
positive/negative feedback    sampling with(out) replacement    hypothesis checking    dimension checking    global focusing
complex rule    conjunction (AND)    disjunction (OR)    conditional (IF-THEN)    biconditional (IFF)
Bourne's feature frequency theory    concept identification experiment    reception paradigm    selection paradigm
dimensionality    cue salience (or cue dominanace)    simultaneous scanning    conservative focusing    focus gambling
continuous dimensions    fuzzy boundaries    natural language category    probabilistic category
modal description (central tendency)    prototype    shape information    basic level category    superordinate level
subordinate level    ideal    exemplar model    similarity computation    graded structure (typicality/representativeness)
family resemblance    prototype rule   nearest neighbor rule    average distance rule    feature frequency rule
context effects    refocusing    restructuring    point of view    taxonomic category    goal-derived category    ad hoc category
theory-based category    underlying principle    conceptual coherence    person perception    stereotype    functional features    visual features

Knowledge Representations:

Names:  Anderson    Bartlett   Bower, Clark, Winzenz, & Lesgold     Brewer & Nakamura    Barasalou   Barsalou & Sewell    Collins & Quillian   
Collins & Loftus    Galambos & Rips    Holley & Danserau    Keil & Batterman     Meyer & Schvaneveldt     Peecher, Zeelenberg, & Barsalou    
Reder & Anderson    Schank & Abelson    Smith    Smith, Adams, & Shorr   Smith, Shoben, & Rips    Zwaan & Yaxley

Findings:  semantic memory    episodic memory    hierarchical organization    semantic organization   
hierarchical network model    links    nodes    category links    property links    cognitive economy principle
computation    retrieval    inferences    travel    category verifications    property verifications
retrieval facilitation (semantic facilitation)    category size effect    property verification effect    feature comparison model
typicality    falses    feature lists    defining features    characteristic features    Stage 1    Stage 2    hedges    positive relatedness (typicality)
negative relatedness    reverse category size effect    spreading activation model    summation    property comparison    
lexical decision task    priming    Perceptual Symbols Model     modal approach    amodal approach   ACT    Fact retrieval experiment
fan effect    integration    thematic subnode    script     schema     default knowledge   sequential order   centrality