Psychology 405 (Spring, 2016): Unit II 


(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:

Desse; Reodiger & McDermott (word list experiment)
Brewer & Treyens (graduate student office experiment)
Levin & Simons (continuity error experiments showing change blindness)
Levin, Momen, Drivdahl, & Simons:  change blindness blindness
Wade, Garry, Read, & Lindsay (implanted childhood memories)
Sacchi, Agnoli, & Loftus (Tiananmen Square implanted memories)
Sherman et al. (memory for end-of-life decisions)
Colgrove (Lincoln assassination flashbulb memories)
Brown & Kulik (flashbulb memories)
Neisser & Harsch (space shuttle Challenger Flashbulb memories)
Talarico & Rubin (tracking changes in flashbulb and regular memories<>)
vividness & emotionality


From the Lectures:


sensory memories     working memory     central executive     long-term memory     declarative (know-that) memory
procedural (know-how) memory     Tulving     semantic memory     episodic memory     implicit memory     declarative memory
retrieval cues     cue-based retrieval     encoding specificity (Tulving)     search     familiarity     reconstruction     elaboration
DRM Paradigm     Levin et al's change blindness blindness (also in text)     Brewer & Treyens     Loftus & Palmer     leading questions
Miss     False Alarm     Nickerson & Adams     Rubin & Kontis     Bransford & Johnson's Peace March Experiment     cued recall
uncued recall     Bransford & Johnson's 'Simple Procedure' Experiment     topic/story title placement     Bartlett     War of the Ghosts  
Wade et al. (also in text)     guided imagery     perceptual elaboration     conceptual elaboration     Zaragoza, Mitchell, Payment, & Drivdahl
Patterson, Kemp, & Ng     collaborative memory     social contagion    Franks & Bransford     Sulin & Dooling     thematic relatedness    
Spiro     Richards, French, & Harris     Brown, Deffenbacher, & Sturgill     Hinz & Pezdek      target-present line-up     target-absent lineup    
constructivism (Bransford)     Prototype (Wittgenstein; Rosch)     central tendency     Schema (Bartlett)    
Source Monitoring Framework (Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay)       reality monitoring       Fuzzy Trace Theory (Brainerd & Reyna)
verbatim memory trace     perceptual features     gist memory trace     conceptual memory features