Psychology 405 (Spring, 2016): Unit IV
(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. For
Spring 2014, the terms in red may
be covered on Test 2; the other terms will be relevant to Test 3.)
From the Book:
Lawson (bike study)
Rozenblit (why-is-that? study)
Hofstadter's Law
planning fallacy
reference class forecasting
(you're reading the footnotes, right???)
Thaler, Tversky, Kahneman, & Schwartz (mutual fund study)
Barber & Odean (frequent vs. infrequent stock trader study)
Rensinck (mind-as-a-web-browser theory)
Keil & Gray (uninformative babble study: good vs. bad explanations)
Weisberg et al. (neurobabble)
McCabe & Castell (brain porn study)
Chabris et al. (the Anna/Betty study)
From the Lectures:
Lawson (also in the text)
taxicab
problem birth order
problem the pulmonary embolism
problem frame
errors
pedal
errors chain
errors expert/nonexpert
differences Schneps knowledge of
seasons knowledge of moon phases
Čech
discourse
constraints Vincente &
Brewer de Groot
Jongman
Jongman &
Lemmens Chase & Simon
attribution
errors methods
errors results errors
gist errors schematic
reconstruction Bartlett
Rozenblitt (also in text)
Valins
Woll &
McFall Moore
James-Lange Theory of emotions Gazzaniga
split-brain patients rationalization
Sachs
Korsakoff's
syndrome Nisbett &
Wilson position effect
Tversky & Kahneman base rate
neglect
Bayes' Theorem prior
probability posterior
probability Casscells, Schoenberger, &
Grayboys Cosmides &
Tooby
probabilities vs. frequencies
frequentist/evolutionary approach Hasher &
Zacks Sperber &
Wilson Relevance Theory
Grice Cooperative
Principle Representativeness
Heuristic conjunction
fallacy Availability
Heuristic
Lichtenstein et al. Mortalitiy
Likelihoods Support
Theory Tversky &
Koehler Decision Frames
Dunegan
planning fallacy Buehler, Griffin, &
McDonald