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Halloween Extra Credit, Fall 2018
Can you identify the psychology construct being exemplified by the costumes?
Announcements:
• The library (i.e., Nadine Anderson) has provided us with a wonderful research search guide. I strongly encourage you to read over the guide as there are many useful tools as well as some tips on how to do the research. Here is a link to that FANTASTIC guide!
• We will be visiting the library (1216ML Mardigian) during the second half of class on May 14th, 2019. Please bring a laptop or tablet if you have one. Please be prepared for this class by already selecting a topic (or several potential topics) to use for your literature review paper. We will be introducing the research article analysis at this class meeting as well and it will be due electronically shortly after. This is a necessary first step prior to beginning your writing assignments. Please find a PDF of an older example of this Research Article Analysis assignment here.
• Below are the ACTIVE (Spring/Summer 2019) extra credit opportunities for students in Psychology 363 with Dr. Clark-Foos:
• Meeting the Minds Extra Credit Assignment: For students attending or presenting at MoM, you are able to earn 10 extra credit points towards your final grade in this class. If presenting, simply tell me what you presented and when and I will verify this in the program book so that you can receive points. If attending, please write a 2-3 page summary of the research you learned about. Dedicate about 60-70% of the paper to summarizing research and the remainder for reflection. Meeting of the Minds is THIS FRIDAY, MAY 10th, 2019!
• Make a Mnemonic (Due electronically by the day of the final exam): 10+ points are available if you create up to five separate mnemonics for material in this class. Ten points come directly from the five mnemonics and the additional five are possible if yours are voted (by the class) as funniest and/or most effective. Read more. (Note: Due date in attached file has not been updated for the current semester).
• I will award you ten extra credit points on any ONE assignment for visiting the writing center for help and providing proof (email from the Writing Center is typical) that you visited them for assistance.
Course Overview
This course is designed as a review of Cognitive psychology. As such, we will have several goals to attain as a class. The first goal we will have is to learn and understand research in cognition ranging from early classics to cutting edge research being conducted right now. Our second goal in this course will be to understand the methods of research used by cognitive psychologists. Finally, you will begin to think more critically about what you read and hear, with the aim of proposing new research in each of the subdisciplines of cognitive psychology.
There will be several methods of instruction used in this course. You will read chapters in Stephen K. Reed's (2009) textbook, listen to lectures, participate in class discussions, and participate in laboratory experiments. I have intentionally attempted to keep the amount of readings to a minimum for this course. For those pursuing careers as cognitive psychologists, you will receive more in-depth information in specialized classes and seminars (e.g., perception, neuropsychology, human learning and memory). There will be several informal discussions throughout the semester about the topics we cover. I hope to provide you with the foundational principles in cognitive psychology so that you may put the more contemporary findings in perspective.
Notes
Each of the links below is to a PowerPoint file housed on Dropbox.com's servers. This means that they will always be the most up to date version of the lecture materials. Please remember that the exams in this course combine material covered in both lecture and the textbook, including material that exists in exclusively one of those sources. These PowerPoint files are also outlines, not fully detailed notes. You will need to attend class regularly and take your own notes in order to learn this material.
01 - History & Conceptualizations
02 - Attention
03 - Perception
04 - Representations I (Schemata)
05 - Representations II (Visuospatial and Imagery)
06 - Representations III (Categories)
• Exam 1
07 - Memory Basics (STM-WM)
08 - Long-Term Memory
09 - Memory Codes
10 - Memory Distortions
11 & 12 - Psycholinguistics
• Exam 2
13 - Problem Solving
14 - Reasoning
15 - Judgment & Decision Making
16 - Neuroscience
• Exam 3
In-Class Activities & Handouts
Phoemic Restoration Effect (Description, Example)
Multiple Phonemic Restorations (Description, Example)
McGurk Effect (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976)
Sample Stroop Test
Propositional Representation of a Boat (Kosslyn, 1973)
Analog Representation of a Boat (Kosslyn, 1973)
Program Demonstrating a Replication of Mental Rotation, courtesy of Dr. Dan Swift
Exam Materials
Study Guide for Exam #1
Study Guide for Exam #2
Study Guide for Exam #3
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