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)