Psychology 405 (Spring, 2016): Unit I




(Note: The following is a guide to what you should know. To help you locate items, these are presented in roughly the order in which they were talked about in class/text.  Identifications on the test will ALWAYS be from this list.)

From the Book:

Chabris & Simons (gorilla experiment)
Memmert (eye tracking experiment)
Most & Scholl (the red cross experiment referred to as the red gorilla experiment)
Most & Astur (driving simulator study)
Haines, Fischer, & Price (flight simulator sudy;  Head-Up Display or HUD)
Scholl, Noles, Pasheva, & Sussman (effect of cell phone conversations on 'red gorilla' study)
Drew, Pasupathi, & Strayer (passenger vs. cell phone conversations)
Weingarten (the Bell 'social experiment')
Simons & Jensen;  Simons & Memmert (individual differences in the gorilla experiment)
Zwemer et al. (unremoved guidewire)

From the Lectures:

Perceptual Illusions     Cognitive Illusions     Blind Spot     Moon Illusion     Necker Cube     Mũller-Lyer Illusion     Bottom-Up Processing
Top-Down Processing     Automatic Process     Effortful/Control Process     Orienting Response     Divided Attention Task    
Focused Attention Task     Inattentional Blindness   Sperling     Partial Report     Whole Report     Axelrod & Guzy     Cherry    Moray
Cocktail Party Effect     Neisser      Neisser & Becklin        Kahneman's Model of Attention     capacity     arousal
allocation policy     momentary intentions     enduring dispositions     Miss     False Alarm     Treisman & Schmidt     misconjunctions
attentional spotlight     automatic feature extraction     attentional feature binding     'New Look' work     Bruner & Postman
incongruity     dominance     compromise     disruption     Bruner & Goodman     memory condition     perception condition     rich kids
poor kids     Jacoby, Allan, Collins, & Dickinson     sentence familiarity effect     perceptual hindsight     Boundary Extension (Intraub)
Intraub & Dickinson     scene model     source monitoring     reality monitoring     Healey's Unitizing experiment     word shape
Healey & Cunningham     Daneman & Stainton     Strayer & Johnston's cell phone study     Drews et al. (also in text)     situational awareness
Watson & Strayer     supertaskers     Loftus, Loftus. & Messo     Weapons Focus Effect     eye movement data     lineup performance
Rensink     change blindness     subliminal perception     Vicary     Silerman     Cheesman & Merikle     subjective threshhold    
objective threshhold

(note that while Attentional Blink is on the outline, we did not cover it this semester)