Unit 6 Guide: Cognition
Date
11/19
11/20
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11/25
11/26
12/2
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12/6
Topic
Unit 5 FRQ; Introduction to Memory
Brain Games: Memory
Memory Day 1
Memory Day 2
Forgetting; False Memories
Memory Quiz (Part I Notecards
due); Finish Up
Language; Problem Solving
Problem Solving
Catch Up
MC Test
FRQ
Assignment
Sensory Registers and STM: 185-190
Long Term Memory: 191-198
The Biology of Memory: 198-202
Forgetting: 202-206; 40 Studies: Loftus
Special Topics in Memory: 206-212
Building Blocks of Thought: 217-220 &
Language, Thought, and Culture: 220-224
Problem Solving: 225-230
Decision Making:231-234
Cognition Unit Objectives
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Explain the steps of the information processing model.
Explain the difference between automatic and effortful processing.
Describe Herman Ebbinghaus’ contribution to the study of memory.
Describe the serial position effect, chunking, and the spacing effect.
Differentiate between semantic, visual, and acoustic encoding.
Define mnemonic device and identify common types of mnemonic devices.
Describe each of your three memory storage systems.
Describe the neural basis behind learning.
Differentiate between episodic, semantic, procedural, emotional, and flashbulb memories.
Differentiate between explicit(declarative) and implicit (nondeclarative) memories.
Differentiate between recall and recognition.
Describe the context and state-dependent memory effects.
Differentiate between different forms of amnesia.
Describe why encoding, storage, and retrieval failure occurs.
Differentiate between proactive and retroactive interference.
Explain the analogy used to describe memory construction.
Describe Elizabeth Loftus’ role in memory research, including the misinformation effect.
Define repressed memories and evaluate research regarding repressed and recovered memories.
Explain the problems with children’s eyewitness recall.
Define and be able to identify examples of: concept, prototype, convergent thinking, divergent
thinking, concept hierarchy.
Explain the difference between an algorithm and a heuristic.
Define and identify examples of: fixation, functional fixedness, mental set, availability heuristic,
representativeness, confirmation bias, overconfidence, framing, and belief perseverance.
Differentiate between morphemes and phonemes.
Differentiate between grammar, semantics, and syntax.
Trace the development of language in children.
Explain how Skinner and Chomsky differed in their views on language development.
Describe Whorf’s linguistic relativity hypothesis.
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Information Processing Model
Sensory Memory/Sensory Registers
Short-Term Memory/Working Memory
Iconic v. Echoic Memory
Long-Term Memory
Automatic v. Effortful Processing
Rote v. Elaborative Rehearsal
Spacing Effect
Serial Position Effect
Visual, Acoustic, and Semantic Encoding
Chunking
Long-Term Potentiation
Flashbulb Memory
Implicit Memories
Explicit Memories
Recall v. Recognition
Priming
Mood and State Congruent (Dependent)
Memory
Due: 11/26
1. Concept
2. Prototype
3. Concept Hierarchy
4. Algorithm v. Heuristic
5. Confirmation Bias
6. Fixation
7. Mental Set
8. Functional Fixedness
9. Representativeness Heuristic
10. Availability Heuristic
11. Overconfidence
12. Belief Perseverance
13. Framing
14. Phoneme v. Morpheme
15. Grammar
16. Semantics
17. Syntax
18. Babbling Stage
19. One-Word Stage
20. Two-Word Stage
21. Telegraphic Speech
22. Linguistic Determinism
Due 12/5
Names
1. Richard Atkinson and Richard
Shiffrin
2. Allan Baddeley
3. Fergus Craik and Endel Tulving
4. Hermann Ebbinghaus
5. Elizabeth Loftus
6. H.M. (Henry Molaison)
7. George Miller
8. Noam Chomsky
9. Daniel Kahnerman and Amos
Tversky
10. Wolfgang Kolher
11. B.F. Skinner
12. Peter Wason
13. Benjamin Lee Whorf