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Expertise in problem solving, 346–348

Experts, 346–348

Explanatory power, 254

Explicit memory, 156, 157–161

connections between types of, 159–161

distinguishing types of, 157–158

neuropsychological research on,

158–159

Extrastriate body area (EBA), 32, 33

Eye movements

bottom-up determinants of, 100

measurement of, 99, 100, 101

overt attention and, 98–102

sentence understanding and, 307–308

top-down determinants of, 100–102

word frequency effect and, 301

Eye tracker, 99, 100, 101

Eyewitness testimony, 226–233

correcting problems with, 231–233

errors associated with, 227–231

misidentifying people in, 226–227

postevent questioning and, 230–231

review questions on, 234, 235

summary points about, 235

F

Face perception, 39–41

distributed coding and, 40–41

fusiform face area and, 32, 68–69

law of familiarity and, 60

specificity coding and, 39–40

False memories, 220, 225–226, 233, 235

Falsifiability, 254

Falsification principle, 364

Familiarity

conditional reasoning and, 367

eyewitness testimony and, 228, 229

false memories and, 226

law of, 60–61

source monitoring and, 215–216, 228

Familiarity effect, 189

Familiarization/Novelty Preference Procedure

procedure, 263–264

Family resemblance, 242, 243–244

Fear conditioning, 195–196

Feature detectors, 38–39

Feature integration theory, 104–106

Feedback signals, 53

50 First Dates (film), 167

Films

continuity errors in, 97

memory loss depicted in, 165–167

persistence of vision and, 120–121

Filter model of attention, 13, 83–85

Five-gear problem, 287, 288

Fixations

eye movement and, 99, 301

problem solving and, 329–330, 349, 351

Flanker compatibility task, 88–89

Flashbacks, 197

Flashbulb memories, 208–213

emotional events and, 208–209

narrative rehearsal hypothesis and, 212

CHAPTER 8 Repeated Recall

review questions on, 213, 235

summary points about, 234

Flow diagrams, 12–13

Focused attention stage, 105

Forest Has Eyes, The (Doolittle), 61

Forgetting

selective, 166

time-course of, 7–8, 9

Fortress story, 342

Four-card problem. See Wason four-card

problem

Framing effect, 380–381, 385–386, 388

Free recall, 182–183

Frontal lobe, 30

Functional fixedness, 329–330

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

(fMRI), 32

See also Brain imaging

Fusiform face area (FFA), 32, 68–69, 260

Future imagining, 200

G

Garden path sentences, 305

Garner interference, 79

Gender stereotypes, 216–217

Generalization of learning, 259

Generation effect, 178, 188, 351

Geons, 51–52

Gestalt approach

perception and, 58–63

problem solving and, 327–331

Gestalt laws of perceptual organization,

58–63

Gestalt psychologists, 58, 78

Given–new contract, 315

Global level of categories, 248

Goal state, 332

Golgi stain, 26

“Good, You Identified the Suspect”

(Wells and Bradfield), 230

Good continuation, law of, 58–60

Good figure, law of, 60

Graceful degradation, 259

Graded amnesia, 193

Grandmother cell, 40

See also Specificity coding

Greeble experiment, 68–69

H

Health decisions, 385–386

Heuristics, 62, 369

availability, 369–371

Gestalt laws as, 62–63

inductive reasoning and, 369–373

light-from-above, 64

representativeness, 371–373

Hidden units, 255

Hierarchical models, 250–253

Hierarchical organization, 247

Highlighting, 189

High-load tasks, 87

High prototypicality, 243

High working memory (HWM), 352

Hippocampus, 191, 192, 194–195

I

Iconic memory, 122

Ill-defined problems, 326

Illusions of learning, 189

Illusory conjunctions, 105

Illusory correlations, 371

Imageless thought debate, 271

Imagery, 268–291

brain damage and, 282–285

brain imaging experiments on, 280–281

CogLab experiments on, 291

debate on the nature of, 274–276,

278, 285

dissociations of perception and,

283–284

encoding information using, 177

in history of psychology, 271–272

interactions of perception and, 277–278

memory improvement using, 286–287

Mental Scanning

Method of Loci

neurons related to, 279

neuropsychological case studies on,

282–285

organizational function of, 286

pegword technique using, 287

perception and, 272–285

physiology of, 279–285

propositional approach to, 274–276

resources related to, 290

review questions on, 279, 289, 290

sizing in the visual field, 276–277,

282–283

Mechanical Problems

287–289, 290

spatial approach to, 274–276

summary points about, 289–290

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

281–282

usefulness of, 270–271

Imagery debate, 274–276, 278, 285

Imagery neurons, 279

Image-scanning experiment, 273–274

Immediate emotions, 377–378

Immediate test, 215–216

Implicit learning, 169

Implicit memory, 156–157, 161–165

classical conditioning as, 157, 165

priming as, 156, 161–164

procedural memory as, 157, 164–165

propaganda effect and, 163

Inattentional blindness, 95–96

Incidental emotions, 378, 379

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