| Psy 4500: Cognitive Psychology, Spring 2009 | ||||
| Syllabus | CogLab website | List of interesting Articles (optional) | Useful Links* | |
| Lecture Date | Week | Lecture Topic click for lecture notes, readings, study questions, and useful links*. |
Lab (assignments are due at beginning of lab, unless otherwise noted). |
News, Notes, & Reminders |
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| 1/12 | 1 | Introduction to Cognition (Ch. 1) |
Getting Started with CogLab |
Cognitive Daily: | |||||
| 1/19 | no class (Martin Luther King day) | Sternberg Memory Search | |||||||
| 1/26 | 2 | Object Recognition (Ch. 3) |
Visual Search |
Word Superiority | Homework is due at beginning of lab! | ||||
| 2/2 | 3 | Face Recognition | Spatial Cueing | Attentional Blink | |||||
| Attention (Ch. 4) | |||||||||
| 2/9 | 4 | Cognitive Development | Executive Function (Ch. 4) | Writing Assignment | |||||
| Stroop | Simon | ||||||||
| 2/16 | 5 | Working Memory (Ch. 1, Ch. 5) | Phonological Similarity | Brown-Peterson | Sensory Memory (partial report task) | ||||
| 2/23 | 6 | Exam! (see additional study guide) | TBA | how to ace an essay exam | |||||
| what do you mean by that? (useful terms) | |||||||||
| 3/2 | March Break | ||||||||
| 3/9 | 8 | Long-Term Memory | Serial Position | Levels of Processing | Initial Plan for Writing Assignment due Friday @ noon | ||||
| 3/16 | 9 | Memory Errors/ Metamemory (Ch. 7) | Memento | Implicit Learning; False Memory | |||||
| 3/23 | 10 | Imagery (ch. 11) | Mental Rotation | ||||||
| 3/30 | 11 | Concepts (Ch. 9) | Prototype | Categorical Identification | April 1st. last day to drop the class | ||||
| 4/6 | 12 | Language (ch. 10) | Easter (no lab) | Paper due Tuesday at noon | |||||
| 4/13 | 13 | No class (post -Easter) | student presentations | ||||||
| 4/20 | 14 | Judgment & Decision Making (ch. 12) |
student presentations |
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| 4/27 | 15 | Consciousness (ch. 15) | TBA | Final Paper due Tuesday at noon | |||||
| Final Exam: Thursday May 7th, 1.30 am to 4.00 pm | |||||||||
| Spare topics |
Reasoning & Problem Solving (ch. 13, 14) |
Risky Decisions | Typical Reasoning | ||||||
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baby lab, animal cognition, massed learning | ||||||||
| aging | Instrs manual | ||||||||
| metacognition | |||||||||
*I
have tried to find reliable info but cannot guarantee all links lead to accurate
information.
The schedule is
tentative and subject to change. Changes will be announced in class.