Reading list for Psy 404, Fall 2006

Associative Learning

Required:

Skinner, B. F. (1990). Can psychology be a science of mind? American Psychologist, 45(11), 1206-1210.

Optional:

Skinner, B. F. Whatever happened to psychology as the science of behavior? (1987). American Psychologist, 42(8), 780-786.

Sensation & Perception:

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Bahill, A. T., Baldwin, D. G., & Venkateswaran, J. (2005). Predicting a baseball's path. American Scientist, 93, 218-225.

Shimamura, A.P., & Prinzmetal, W. (1999). The Mystery Spot illusion and its relation to other visual illusions. Psychological Science, 10, 501-507.

Optional:

Bartoshuk, L. M., & Snyder, D. J. (2004). Psychophysical measurement of human taste experience. In E. M. Striker, & S. C. Woods (Eds.), Handbook of behavioral neurobiology, (pp. 89-107). New York: Plenum Press.
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Cabeza, R., & Kato, T. (2000). Features are also important: Contributions of featural and configural processing to face recognition. Psychological Science, 11, 429-433.

Simons, D. J., Ambinder, M. S. (2005) Change blindness: Theory and consequences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14(1), 44-48.

Attention:

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Schumacher, E. H., Seymour, T. L., Glass, J. M., Fencsik, D. E., Lauber, E. J., Kieras, D. E., & Meyer, D. E. (2001). Virtually perfect time sharing in dual-task performance: Uncorking the central cognitive bottleneck. Psychological Science, 12(1), 101-108.
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Strayer, D.L., & Johnston, W.A. (2001). Driven to distraction: Dual-task studies of simulated driving and conversing on a cellular telephone. Psychological Science, 12(6), 462-466.

Memory:

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Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Rubin, D. C. (1990). Memorabeatlia: A naturalistic study of long-term memory. Memory & Cognition, 18(2), 205-214.

Banaji, M. R., & Crowder, R. G. The bankruptcy of everyday memory. (1989). American Psychologist, 44(9), 1185-1193.

Schooler, J. (1994). Seeking the core: The issues and evidence surrounding recovered accounts of sexual trauma. Consciousness and Cognition, 3(3-4), 452–469.

Optional:

Mueller, S. T., Seymour, T. L., Kieras, D. E., & Meyer, D. E. (2004). Theoretical implications of articulatory duration, phonological similarity, and phonological complexity in verbal working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 29(6), 1353-1380.
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Jones, G. V. (1990). Misremembering a common object: When left is not right. Memory & Cognition, 18(2), 174–182.

Imagery:

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Shepard, R. N., & Metzler, J. (1971, February 19). Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171, 701–703.

Djordjevic, J., Zatorre, R., Petrides, M., & Jones-Gotman, M. (2004). The mind's nose: Effects of odor and visual imagery on odor detection. Psychological Science, 15, 143-148.

Optional:

Shepard, R. N., and Chipman, S. (1970). Second-order isomorphism of internal representations: Shapes of states. Cognitive Psychology, 1, 1–17.
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Stevenson, R. J., & Case, T. I. (2005). Olfactory imagery: A review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(2), 244-264.
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Language:

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Keysar, B., & Henley, A. S. (2002). Speakers' overestimation of their effectiveness. Psychological Science, 13(3), 207-212.

Samuel, A. G. (2001). Knowing a word affects the fundamental perception of the sounds within it. Psychological Science, 12(4), 348-351.

Senghas, A. & Coppola, M. (2001). Children Creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar. Psychological Science, 12(4), 323-328.

Newport, E. L. (1990). Maturational constraints on language learning. Cognitive Science, 14(1), 11-28.

Optional:

Erickson, T. D., & Mattson, M. E. (1981). From word to meaning: a semantic illusion. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20, 540-551.

Saffran, Newport, Aslin, Tunick, & Barrueco (1997). Incidental language learning: Listening (and learning) out of the corner of your ear. Psychological Science, 8, 101-105.

Babel's children. (2004, January 10). The Economist, 370(8357), 69-70.

McGlone, M. S. & Harding, J. L. (1998). Back (or forward?) to the future: The role of perspective in temporal language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 24(5), 1211-1223.

Concepts and Categories

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Langlois, J.H., & Roggman, L.A. (1990). Attractive faces are only average. Psychological Science, 1, 115–121.

Halberstadt, J., & Rhodes, G. (2000). The attractiveness of nonface averages: Implications for an evolutionary explanation of the attractiveness of average faces. Psychological Science, 4, 285–289.

Halberstadt, J., & Rhodes, G. (2003). It's not just average faces that are attractive: Computer-manipulated averageness makes birds, fish, and automobiles attractive. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 10, 149-156.

Optional:

Rhodes, G., Sumich, A., & Byatt, G. (1999). Are average facial configurations attractive only because of their symmetry? Psychological Science, 10, 52-58.

Reasoning

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Crowley, K., Callanan, M. A., Tenenbaum, H. R., & Allen, E. (2001). Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking. Psychological Science, 12, 258 - 261.

Rips, L. J. (2001). Two kinds of reasoning. Psychological Science, 12, 129-134.

Dias, M., Roazzi, A., & Harris, P. L. (2005). Reasoning from unfamiliar premises: A study with unschooled adults. Psychological Science, 16(7), 550-554.

Optional:

Klahr, D. & Simon, H. A. (2001). What have psychologists (and others) discovered about the process of scientific discovery? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10(3), 75-79.

Kaiser, M. K., McCloskey, M., & Proffitt, D. R. (1986). Development of intuitive theories of motion: Curvilinear motion in the absence of external forces. Developmental Psychology, 22(1), 67-71.

Rips, L. J. (1998). Reasoning and conversation. Psychological Review, 105, 411–441.
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JDM

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Wilson, M. & Daly M. (2004). Do pretty women inspire men to discount the future? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 271(Suppl. 4), S177-S179.

Gawade, A. (1999, February 8). The cancer-cluster myth. The New Yorker, 34-37.

Lerner, J. S., Gonzales, R. M., Small, D. A., & Fischhoff, B. (2003). Effects of fear and anger on perceived risks of terrorism: A national field experiment. Psychological Science, 14(2), 144–150.

Optional:

Birnbaum, M. H. (1999). Testing critical properties of decision making on the internet, Psychological Science, 10(5), 399-407.

Lopez-Rousseau, A. (2005). Avoiding the death risk of avoiding a dread risk: The aftermath of March 11 in Spain. Psychological Science, 16(6), 426-428.

Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185(4157) , 1124-1131.
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Sherman, S. J., Cialdini, R. B., Schwartzman, D. F., & Reynolds, K. D. (1985). Imagining can heighten or lower the perceived likelihood of contracting a disease: The mediating effect of ease of imagery. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 11, 118–127.

Chapman, L. J., & Chapman, J. P. (1971, November 18–22). Test results are what you think they are. Psychology Today, 106–110.

Problem Solving

Required:

Wiley, J. (1998). Expertise as mental set: The effects of domain knowledge in creative problem solving. Memory & Cognition, 26(4), 716-730.
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Optional:

Grant, E. R. & Spivey, M. J. (2003). Eye movements and problem solving, guiding attention, guides thoughts. Psychological Science, 14, 462-466.

Creativity & Intelligence

Required:

Sternberg, R. J. (2005). There are no public-policy implicatons: A reply to Rushton and Jensen (2005). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11(2), 295-301.

Rushton, J. P. & Jensen, A. R. (2005).Wanted: More race realism, less moralistic fallacy. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Vol 11(2), 328-336.

Sternberg, R. J., Grigorenko, E. L., & Kidd, K. K. (2005). Intelligence, race, and genetics. American Psychologist, 60, 46–59.
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Optional:

Deary, I. J. &