10/29 Cognition and Language

Module 34-36  Things to Know: Cognition and Language

Definitions:
cognition  
concepts 
prototypes  
creativity  
convergent thinking
divergent thinking 
algorithms  
heuristics  
insight
confirmation bias  
fixation  
mental set  
intuition 
representative heuristic
availability heuristic 
belief perserverance  
framers language  
Phonemes
Morphemes 
Grammar 
babbling stage  
one-word stage 
two-word stage  
telegraphic speech 
critical period  
Aphasia 
Broca’s Area  
Wernicke’s Area 
linguistic determinism

What are the five components of creativity?  p. 357-358
What are four ways to boost your own creativity? p. 359
Why do we fear the wrong things? p. 366
What is the relationship between language and thinking, and what is the value of thinking in images? p. 379-382

10/27-28 Piaget--Cognitive Development

Mod 46 and 47
Note Sheet in Class

10/24 Module 45

Read Module 45 p. 462.

Explain what the issue is in developmental psych and also what some examples of big issues in these areas are.

Nature and Nurture

Continuity and Stages

Stability and Change

Define and explain:

zygote

embryo

fetus

FAS

Habituation and Maturation

Explain what research tells us about newborns

10/23 Development Intro

10/22 EXAM 3--Learning and Memory

10/20 Memory

Memory--5 in 5 from Module 32.

Finish Video--explain LTP


Homework for Monday Night:

Module 33 Things to Know:

anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
Herman Ebbinghaus--The forgetting curve
Interference--proactive and retroactive
positive transfer
repression
misinformation effect
source amnesia (source misattribution)
deja vu
What are the 7 ways from p. 353 to improve your memory?

10/17 Memory--Overview Continued

Module 31 Reading Quiz

Inside Out Video on Memory

Homework for the Weekend:

Module 32 --Memory Storage and Retrieval
Where does the brain store memories?--like a library or not?
Hippocampus
How does sleep effect memory consolidation?
Cerebellum and Implicit memory formation--explain the connection.
Basal ganglia--explain it's importance to memory.
Infantile amnesia---define and explain 2 reasons why it happens.
Amygdala--explain its purpose to memory.
flashbulb memories
LTP--long term potentiation
What is a safe memory enhancer that all people can afford?
Copy the chart of 32.5 for your notes
recall
recognition
relearning
retrieval cues
priming
context-dependent memory
state-dependent memory
serial position effect---primacy and recency effect

10/16 Intro to Memory

Module 31 Intro:  Read and Take Cornell Notes on the following terms/concepts from Module 31

Homework
Terms/Questions from Module 31 to Know:
Memory
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
parallel processing
sensory memory
short-term memory
Why is short-term memory called "working memory"
long-term memory
explicit memories and effortful processing
implicit memories and automatic processing
3 things that are automatically processed
iconic memory
echoic memory
Effortful Processing Strategies:
Explain Chunking, mnemonics, Hierarchies
Distributed Practice--Spacing Effect, testing effect
Levels of Processing---
Shallow vs. Deep processing
How does making something personally meaningful improve understanding?

10/15 Career Day

Social Learning 10/14

10/9 Pop Quiz on Learning

10/6-9 Operant Conditioning

Operant Conditioning and reinforcement

Reinforcement Schedules Wkst. in Notes
Punishment/Reinforcement Wkst in Notes

Intro to Observational Learning and Cognitive Effects on Learning

9/30-10/3 Associated Learning

Module 26 reading and Strive for 5 work--due on 10/3

9/29 Unit 2 EXAM

9/26 Inferential Statistics

Cornell Notes on how to discover Statistical Significance
Review of Statistics and Research in Psychology