Psychology 360 (Fall, 2011)

(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      Hayes-Roth & Hayes-Roth     Labov    Levine    Malt     Medin & Shaffer  
Medin & Shoben    Murphy & Medin    Nosofsky   Posner & Keele    Reed    Rogers & Patterson   Rosch    Rosch & Mervis     
Rosch et al.   Roth & Shoben    Smith & Minda (and Minda & Smith)      Tanaka & Taylor     Wittgenstein

Findings: categorization bene Rosch et al.fits    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   goal-derived category     semantic dementia   Word-Picture Matching Task
theory-based category    underlying principle    conceptual coherence    person perception    stereotype    functional features    visual features


Knowledge Representations:

Names:  Anderson       Anderson & Pichert          Bartlett        Beilock & Golden-Meadows        Bower, Black, & Turner
Bower, Clark, Winzenz, & Lesgold        Bransford & Johnson        Brewer & Nakamura        Brewer & Treyens        Barasalou    
Barsalou & Sewell       Collins & Quillian       Collins & Loftus        Galambos & Rips       Haviland & Clark    Holley & Danserau   
Keil & Batterman       Kieras       Lesgold, Roth, & Curtis        Meyer & Schvaneveldt     Myers, O'Brien, Balota, & Toyofuku    
Peecher, Zeelenberg, & Barsalou         Radvansky & Zacks       Ratcliff & McKoon     Reder & Anderson        Rubin
Schank & Abelson       Smith        Smith, Adams, & Shorr        Smith, Shoben, & Rips       Spiro        Sulin & Dooling         Thorndyke    
Trabasso (and colleagues)        Zwaan & Yaxley

Findings:  semantic memory     episodic memory       hierarchical organization    semantic organization        links       nodes   
hierarchical network model      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       ACT        Fact retrieval experiment      fan effect        ACT*        lists       images
frame     script        schema        apperceptive mass     default knowledge (instantiation)        scene        action         thematic subnode      
sequential order        centrality     attentional hypothesis          framework hypothesis     integration hypothesis      retrieval cue hypothesis
communication hypothesis      perspective shift        context (no before after)      false recognitions     obstacles/interruptions        
story structure     setting        theme     plot    resolution     causal relations/connections       degree of integration        situational/mental models  
Perceptual Symbols Model        modal approach        amodal approach      simulation     autobiographical memory

(the terms/people below are also listed above, but they can specifically be found on pp. 272-286)

Bransford & Johnson    Anderson & Pichert     Sulin & Dooling      Bower, Black, & Turner     obstacles     Trabasso (and colleagues)
causal relations/connections     degree of integration      Myers et al.     Kieras     Lesgold et al.