Fall 2017
Syllabus and Lecture Notes
|
Week
Beginning (Mondays) |
Topic |
pdf notes |
Readings |
| 8/28 |
Introduction
to Course Metaphors of the Mind A Process Model of Cognition |
First_Day.pdf Foundations.pdf ProcessModel.pdf |
Ch.
1 |
| 9/4 |
Monday is Labor Day (no class) Pattern Recognition |
Pattern
Recognition.pdf |
Ch. 2 |
| 9/11 |
Sensory Storage | Pattern
Recognition.pdf Sensory Storage.pdf |
Ch.
2 |
| 9/18 |
Attention & Resource Allocation | Attention.pdf |
Ch.
3 |
| 9/25 |
Short-Term Memory | STS.pdf |
Ch.
4 |
| 10/2 |
Test 1
Monday 10/2:
Covers Chapters 1-4
(sample) Functional Dissociation |
Dissociations.pdf |
Ch.
5 |
| 10/9 |
Long-Term
Memory: Encoding Distinctiveness |
LOP.pdf Distinctiveness.pdf |
Ch.
6. pp 125-142 |
| 10/16 | Monday - Fall Break Long-Term Memory: Forgetting & Retrieval |
Forgetting.pdf
Repression.pdf |
Ch.
6 pp. 142-151 |
| 10/23 |
Memory Illusions | Reconstruction.pdf |
Ch.
11 |
| 10/30 |
Imagery | Imagery.pdf
|
Ch.
7 |
| 11/6 |
Test 2 Monday 11/6: Covers Chapters
5, 6,
11, 7 (sample) Discussion of Term Paper Assignment 11/8 (Don't miss this class!) Cognition and Emotion |
Emotion1.pdf |
Library
Research |
| 11/13 |
Cognition
and Emotion
(continued) Topic Approval due Friday 11/17 Semantic Memory |
Emotion2.pdf |
Ch. 14
(opt.) |
| 11/20 |
Semantic
Memory (continued) Thanksgiving Holiday Wednesday - Friday |
SemanticMemory.pdf |
Ch.
9 |
| 11/27 |
Papers
due Monday 11/27 Language |
language.pdf
|
Ch.
10 |
| 12/4 |
Problem Solving | Problem.pdf |
Ch.
12 |
| 12/11 9:30 (10:20 class)
12/13 10:00 (9:10 class) |
Test 3: Covers Chapters 9, 10, 12 and Cognition and Emotion (sample) | |
|
Last
Modified 8/4/2017
