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Fall 2018 Syllabus and Lecture Notes

Week Beginning	Topic	pdf notes	Readings
8/27	Introduction to Course Metaphors of the Mind A Process Model of Cognition	First_Day.pdf Foundations.pdf ProcessModel.pdf	Ch. 1
9/3	Monday 9/3 Labor Day (no class) Pattern Recognition	Pattern Recognition.pdf	Ch. 2
9/10	Sensory Storage	Pattern Recognition.pdf Sensory Storage.pdf	Ch. 2
9/17	Attention & Resource Allocation	Attention.pdf	Ch. 3
9/24	Short-Term Memory	STS.pdf	Ch. 4
10/1	Test 1 Monday 10/1: Covers Chapters 1-4 (sample) Functional Dissociation	Dissociations.pdf	Ch. 5
10/8	Long-Term Memory: Encoding Distinctiveness	LOP.pdf Distinctiveness.pdf	Ch. 6. pp 125-142
10/15	Monday 10/15 Fall Break (no class) Long-Term Memory: Forgetting & Retrieval	Forgetting.pdf Repression.pdf	Ch. 6 pp. 142-151
10/22	Memory Illusions	Reconstruction.pdf	Ch. 11
10/29	Imagery	Imagery.pdf	Ch. 7
11/5	Test 2 Monday 11/5: Covers Chapters 5, 6, 11, 7 (sample) Discussion of Term Paper Assignment 11/7 (Don't miss this class!) Cognition and Emotion	Emotion1.pdf	Library Research
11/12	Cognition and Emotion (continued) Topic Approval due Friday 11/16 Semantic Memory	Emotion2.pdf	Ch. 14  (opt.)
11/19	Semantic Memory (continued) Thanksgiving Break (no class Wednesday or Friday)	SemanticMemory.pdf	Ch. 9
11/26	Papers due Monday 11/26 Language	language.pdf	Ch. 10
12/3	Problem Solving	Problem.pdf	Ch. 12
12/12 10:00	Test 3 Covers Chapters 9, 10, 12 (sample) and Cognition and Emotion

Last Modified 8/10/2018