Psychology 405 (Spring, 2016): Unit III 


(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, & Benjamin (chess player overconfidence study)
Kruger & Dunning (Dunning-Kruger Effect on people clueless about humor, logic, etc.)
Anderson & Killduff (the group leader study)
Chabris, Schuldt, & Wooley (accuracy and confidence on trivia tests)
Johnson, Levenkron, Suchman, & Manchester (confidence in doctors study)
Lindsay, Wells, & Rumpel (juror confidence study)
Sporer, Penrod, Reed, & Cutler (meta-analysis on witness confidence & accuracy)


From the Lectures:


Zaragoza et al. (from Unit II)     Franks & Bransford (also from Unit II)     Talarico & Rubin     autobiographical memory
recall     confidence     flashbulb memory     vividness     Kruger & Dunning (also in text)     Johnson et al. (also in text)
Jansen et al.     optimistic bias     Anderson & Kilduff (also in text)     group dynamics     polarization     trait dominance
social comparison     diffusion of responsibility     Latane     self-serving bias     internal cause     external cause
attribution     prospective confidence     Nelson & Dunlovsky     JOL     immediate JOL     delayed JOL    
short-term/working memory     long-term memory     Nelson & Narens     retrieval speed     metamemory    
retrospective confidence     EOL     FOK     retrieval fluency     Kelly & Lindsay     divided attention    focused attention
justification of retrieved information     Koriat, Lichtenstein, & Fischhoff     familiarity/strength     signal detection theory (SDT)
noise distribution     signal + noise distribution     d'     beta     sensitivity     bias     hit (H)     false alarm (FA)     miss
correct reject     single process mechanism     amount/quality of detail     Chandler     Busey, Tunnicliff, Loftus, & Loftus
Tulving's Encoding Specificity Prnciple     Brewer, Sampaio, & Barlow     Wixted, Mixes, Clark, Gronland, & Roediger
within-S correlation of confidence & accuracy     between-S correlation