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Exam 3 Names
Chapters 6 and 7
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/23/2010

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Griffith
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mathematician - person can recall 500x the info in entire set of encyclopedia britannica
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Conrad
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experiment - letters presented visually, mistakes with rhyming. proves STM is primarily acoustic
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Miller
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"magic number" and chunking
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Brown and Peterson
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distractor technique - measure duration of STM with no rehearsal
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Sachs
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tape recording experiment - people remember general meaning but not exact wording; proves LTM is primarily semantic
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Ebbinghaus
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relearning method and savings
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Tulving and Psotka
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experiment with categorized lists - with retrieval cues ("building type" list), people could remember; proves memory doesn't disappear, just need correct cues
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Tversky and Kahneman
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three types of heuristics: anchoring, representativeness, and availability
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Amabile
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three things are necessary for creativity: expertise, creative skills, and motiviation
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Kahneman
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nobel prize for research in decision making biases involving money
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Fischoff and MacGregor
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experiment of people's confidence in their predictions
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Chomsky
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people are born with built in grammar
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Binet
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developed first IQ test
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Terman
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made english version of Binet's test: Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and followed high IQ people for 70 years
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Weschler
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modified previous IQ tests to make WAIS-III
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Steele
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stereotype threat
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Sternberg
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triarchic theory of intelligence: analytic, practical, and creative
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Gardner
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multiple intelligences
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