Unit 6 Guide: Cognition
Date
11/19
11/20
Topic
Brain Games
11/26
11/27
11/28
11/29
11/30
Finish Brain Games; Article Sharing;
Review Learning tests
Memory Day 1
Memory Day 2
False Memories
Forgetting
Finish
12/3
12/4
12/5
12/6
12/7
Thinking, Language, Problem Solving
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Finish
MC Test
FRQ
Assignment
(185-190 after test) Long Term Memory:
pg 191-198
The Biology of Memory: pg 198-202
Forgetting: pg 202-205
Special Topics in Memory: pg 206-212
Loftus Article
Memory Article
Building Blocks of Thought and Language
Thought, and Culture: pg 217-223
Problem Solving: pg 225-230
Decision Making: pg 231-234
Cognition Unit Objectives
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.
Describe the difference 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 long-term potentiation.
Differentiate between episodic, semantic, procedural, emotional, and flashbulb memories.
Differentiate between explicit and implicit 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.
Identify the analogy used to describe memory construction.
Describe Elizabeth Lofts’ role in memory research.
Define the misinformation effect.
Differentiate between types of amnesia.
Evaluate the arguments regarding recovered memories.
Explain the problems with children’s eyewitness recall
Define concept, prototype, and concept hierarchy and be able to identify examples of each.
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.
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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.
Vocab (only need to do 25)
1. Information Processing Model
2. Sensory Memory
3. Short-Term Memory/Working Memory
4. Iconic v. Echoic Memory
5. Long-Term Memory
6. Automatic v. Effortful Processing
7. Rote v. Elaborative Rehearsal
8. Spacing Effect
9. Serial Position Effect
10. Visual, Acoustic, and Semantic Encoding
11. Chunking
12. Long-Term Potentiation
13. Flashbulb Memory
14. Implicit v. Explicit Memory
15. Recall v. Recognition
16. Priming
17. Schema
18. Mood and State Congruent Memory
19. Concept
20. Prototype
21. Algorithm v. Heuristic
22. Confirmation Bias
23. Fixation
24. Mental Set
25. Functional Fixedness
26. Representativeness Heuristic
27. Availability Heuristic
28. Overconfidence
29. Belief Perseverance
30. Framing
31. Phoneme v. Morpheme
32. Grammar
33. Semantics
34. Syntax
35. Babbling Stage
36. One-Word Stage
37. Two-Word Stage
38. Telegraphic Speech
39. Linguistic Determinism
Names
1. Richard Atkinson and Richard
Shiffrin
2. Allan Baddeley
3. Fergus Craik and Endel Tulving
4. Hermann Ebbinghaus
5. Erick Kandel and James Schwartz
6. Karly Lashley
7. Elizabeth Loftus
8. H.M. (Henry Molaison)
9. George Miller
10. Noam Chomsky
11. Daniel Kahnerman and Amos
Tversky
12. Wolfgang Kolher
13. Steven Pinker
14. B.F. Skinner
15. Peter Wason
16. Benjamin Lee Whorf