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