Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
17 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
George Sperling
|
Iconic memory - people see more than they can remember
|
|
|
Ulric Neisser
|
Icon - brief visual memory
|
|
|
George Miller
|
Short-term memory has capacity of 7 +/- 2.
|
|
|
Hermann Ebbinghaus
|
Forgetting Curve - sharp drop in memory, followed by a slight downward trend
First to study memory |
|
|
Frederick Bartlett
|
Reconstructive Memory - people remember ideas better than details
|
|
|
Allan Paivio
|
Dual Code hypothesis - things are better remembered when encoded visually and semantically
|
|
|
Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart
|
Depth of Processing - things coded deeper (like meaning) are harder to forget than shallower things (like pronunciation)
|
|
|
Elizabeth Loftus
|
Memories of traumatic events are themselves altered by the event
|
|
|
Karl Lashley
|
Memories are stored throughout the brain
|
|
|
Donald Hebb
|
"Memory Tree" - memory involves an alteration in synapses and neural pathways
|
|
|
Brenda Milner
|
Wrote about "HM", the man who couldn't add to his LTM.
|
|
|
Elizabeth Loftus and Allan Collins
|
Hierarchical semantic networks (we can link together closely related ideas faster than non-related ideas)
|
|
|
Allan Collins and Ross Quillian
|
People make decisions about the relationship between items by searching cognitive semantic hierarchies.
|
|
|
Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer
|
Cognitive Theory of Emotion - emotions are the product of our interpretation of physiological reactions
|
|
|
James Gibson
|
Perceptual development - as a child grows, they're able to make finer discriminations among stimuli
|
|
|
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
|
The Visual Cliff experiment
|
|
|
E.H. Weber
|
Differential Threshold - the minimum amount of difference that must be present in order to perceive two stimuli as different.
|
