PSYC 340

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Lawrence University

Winter 2007

 

CLASS OUTLINE

 

Date

Topic

Readings or Activities

Jan. 3

Introduction:  History and traditions in studying the mind

Galotti 1

Jan. 5

Perception and pattern recognition

Galotti 2

Jan. 8
Perception and pattern recognition (cont.)

Jan. 9

LAB: Labs 1 and 2

CogLab: Brain asymmetry

CogLab: Visual search

Jan. 10

Attention, automaticity, and consciousness

Galotti 3

Jan. 12

Attention (cont.)

*CogLab: Spatial cueing*

 

Jan. 15
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY

Lab 1 or 2 due, 4:00 p.m.

Jan. 16

LAB: Labs 3 and 4

CogLab: Sternberg effect

Relation of encoding and retrieval processes

Jan. 17

Memory: Duplex theory and levels of processing

Galotti 4
Roediger & Karpicke (2006)

*CogLab: Brown-Peterson*

Jan. 19

Memory: Encoding and retrieval

Galotti 5

Jan. 22

Memory retrieval (cont.)

 *CogLab: Encoding specificity*
Lab 3 or 4 due, 4:00 p.m.

Jan. 23

LAB: Discussion of final projects

 Project Proposals due in lab

Jan. 24

Memory: Construction and distortion

Brown (2004)

Jan. 26

Memory construction (cont.)

Talarico & Rubin (2003)

Loftus (2004)
REVISED Project Proposals due, 4 p.m.

Jan. 29

REVIEW


Jan. 30

LAB: MIDTERM EXAM (9:00-11:00 a.m. OR 12:30-2:30 p.m. OR 2:30-4:30 p.m.)


Jan. 31

Representation of knowledge

Galotti 6

Feb. 2

Mental organization (cont.)

 Galotti 7 (pp. 244-257)

Feb. 5

Mental imagery

Galotti 8

Feb. 6

LAB: Labs 5 and 6

CogLab: Mental rotation

Selective interference of mental images

Feb. 7

 Mental imagery (cont.)


Feb. 9

MIDTERM READING PERIOD


Feb. 12

VIDEO:  The Mind: Language

Lab 5 or 6 due, 4:00 p.m.

Feb. 13

LAB: Labs 7 and 8

CogLab: Lexical decision

Abstractive memory in language

Feb. 14

 Language: Nature and acquisition

Galotti 9

Feb. 16

Language: Comprehension and use

 

Feb. 19

Language (cont.)

*CogLab: Word superiority*

Lab 7 or 8 due, 4:00 p.m.

Feb. 20

LAB: Independent projects

Feb. 21

Thinking and problem-solving

Galotti 10

Feb. 23

NO CLASS at 8:30 a.m.


Feb. 23-25

Bjørklunden

LEAVE LU at 6:00 p.m. Feb. 23

RETURN LU at 4:00 p.m. Feb. 25

McNally (2003)

O'Brien (1994)

Feb. 26

Problem-solving (cont.)


Feb. 27

LAB: Independent projects

 

Feb. 28

Reasoning

Galotti 11

*CogLab: Wason task*

Mar. 2

Decision-making

Galotti 12

Mar. 5

Individual differences

Galotti 14
Halpern (2004)

Mar. 6

LAB: Oral presentation of projects

 

Mar. 7

Cultural differences

Galotti 15

Norenzayan & Nisbett (2000)

Mar. 9

REVIEW

Final project report due

Mar. 14

FINAL EXAM (1:30-4:30 p.m.)

 

 

 

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