Second Semester Midterm Study Guide
Questions about the following terms and people will appear on the midterm. Make sure that you KNOW
these things, don’t just memorize isolated facts.
Noam Chomsky and Language Acquisition
Group Polarization
Social Facilitation
Elaborative Rehearsal
Self-Serving Bias
Maintenance Rehearsal
Fundamental Attribution Error
Reward Theory of Attraction
Deindividuation
Proximity Theory of Attraction
Social Loafing
Memory
Semantic Memory
Implicit Memory
Episodic Memory
Cognitive Dissonance
Encoding
Iconic Memory
Procedural Memory
Echoic Memory
Declarative Memory
Matching Hypothesis
Rehearsal
Similarity Theory of Attraction
Recognition
Levels of Processing
Recall
Chunking
Robert Sternberg
Priming
Triangular Theory of Love
Social Context
Expectancy-Value Theory
Prejudice
Solomon Asch
Conformity
Asch Effect
Stanford Prison Experiment
Mood-Congruent Memory
Phillip Zimbardo
Anterograde Amnesia
Stanley Milgram
Retrograde Amnesia
Kitty Genovese
Long-Term Memory
Bystander Effect
Tom Moriarty
Eidetic Memory
H.M
Cognitive Maps
George Sperling
Algorithms
Sensory Memory
Robbers Cave Study
Groupthink
Daniel Shachter
Seven Sins of Memory
Scripts
Cohesiveness
The Chameleon Effect
Schemas
Social Norms
Social Roles
Bennington College Study
Discrimination