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Fall 2016 Syllabus and Lecture Notes

Week Beginning	Topic	pdf notes	Readings
8/22	Introduction to Course A Process Model of Cognition	First_Day.pdf Foundations.pdf ProcessModel.pdf	Ch. 1
8/29	Pattern Recognition	Pattern Recognition.pdf	Ch. 2
9/5	Monday - Labor Day Holiday Sensory Storage	Pattern Recognition.pdf Sensory Storage.pdf	Ch. 2
9/12	Attention & Resource Allocation	Attention.pdf	Ch. 3
9/19	Short-Term Memory	STS.pdf	Ch. 4
9/26	Test 1 Monday 9/26: Covers Chapters 1-4 (sample) Functional Dissociation	Dissociations.pdf	Ch. 5
10/3	Long-Term Memory: Encoding Distinctiveness	LOP.pdf Distinctiveness.pdf	Ch. 6. pp 125-142
10/10	Monday - Fall Break Long-Term Memory: Forgetting & Retrieval	Forgetting.pdf Repression.pdf	Ch. 6 pp. 142-151
10/17	Memory Illusions	Reconstruction.pdf	Ch. 11
10/24	Imagery	Imagery.pdf	Ch. 7
10/31	Test 2 Monday 10/31: Covers Chapters 5, 6, 11, 7 (sample) Discussion of Term Paper Assignment 11/5 (Don't miss this class!) Cognition and Emotion	Emotion1.pdf	Library Research
11/07	Cognition and Emotion (continued) Topic Approval due Friday 11/11 Semantic Memory	Emotion2.pdf	Ch. 14  (opt.)
11/14	Semantic Memory (continued)	SemanticMemory.pdf	Ch. 9
11/21	Papers due Monday 11/21 Language Thanksgiving Break 11/23-11/26	language.pdf	Ch. 10
11/28	Problem Solving	Problem.pdf	Ch. 12
12/5 9:30 (10:20 class) 12/7 10:00 (9:10 class)	Test 3 Covers Chapters 9, 10, 12 (sample)

Last Modified 8/10/2016