AP Psych. Cognition

research on cognitive psychology, including short term memory and working memory

• George A. Miller

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Wolfgang Koehler

• Herman Ebbinghaus

eyewitness account research and development fo the misinformation effect (noted how the wording of smahed vs hit in questioning increased mis remembered speed of impact and mis-memory of broken glass

• Noam Chomsky

• Herman Ebbinghaus

• Elizabeth Loftus

• George A. Miller

universal grammar, nouns, verbs, and adjectives as building blocks born with a predisposition to earn grammar rules

• Noam Chomsky

• Herman Ebbinghaus

• Wolfgang Koehler

• Elizabeth Loftus

developed the forgetting curve (the tendency to remember things more accurately and for longer periods if learning is spaced out and practiced over time rather than crammed beforehand)

• Noam Chomsky

• Herman Ebbinghaus

• George A. Miller

• Eolfgang Koehler

research on insight learning (noted the lighting up of neuron in the right hemisphere when monkeys suddenly though of a new idea- such as how to reach more fruit with a stick)

• Elizabeth Loftus

• George A. Miller

• Wolfgang Koehler

• Noam Chomsky