Psychology 355: Cognitive Psychology
Course Organization & Introduction
Psychology 355: Cognitive Psychology
Instructor: John Miyamoto
03/30/2015: Lecture 01-1
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Outline
• Instructor & TA information
• Textbook & labs
• Assignments, exams, grading
• What is cognitive psychology?
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Instructor Information
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Who Are We?
Instructor: John Miyamoto
Office Hours: 215 Guthrie, Tue 2:30 – 3:20
TA: Jose Ceballos
Sections AA & AB
Office Hours: Monday 9:20 - 11:20 am
Office Hrs Location: Guthrie Annex 4 Undergrad Study Center
TA: Sonya Mehta
Sections AC & AD
Office hours: Thursday 9:15 - 11:15 am
Office Hrs Location: Large study hall in Suzallo Library
on the opposite side of the main entrance
from the coffee shop
• For individual meetings, contact us by email or after class.
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Course Website
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Course Website
http://faculty.washington.edu/jmiyamot/p355/p355-set.htm
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Textbook
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Textbook
Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive
psychology: Connecting mind, research
and everyday experience (4th ed.).
• Companion website
(link is not yet available from
the Psych 355 website)
• Coglab
(click on link from Psych 355 website)
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Course Website (Again)
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Course Website
http://faculty.washington.edu/jmiyamot/p355/p355-set.htm
Point out:
• Required text – textbook buying info
• Quizzes, exams & answer keys for Spring 2014, Psych 355
• Weekly slides
• Preview slides
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What is Coglab?
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CogLab Experiments
You can access CogLab from the Psych 355 course website:
http://faculty.washington.edu/jmiyamot/p355/p355-set.htm
or from https://coglab.cengage.com/index.shtml
• Demonstrate the ‘word superiority’ experiment.
• Explain how to get a CogLab ID and password.
Discuss issue of buying a used textbook.
• Display the Catalyst questionnaire for Week 1 of Psych 355
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FAQ’s About the Coglab Access Code & Textbook
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FAQ's About the Textbook & CogLab
• 4th edition of the textbook is probably 90% the same as the
3rd edition, but the 10% difference may be important on
some quizzes or exams. We assume that students have read
the material in the 4th edition.
• What you need for Psych 355:
4th edition of the Goldstein textbook.
An access code (a.k.a. "registration code") for the Coglab website.
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How to Get an Access Code for Coglab
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FAQ's About the CogLab Access Code
• The access code comes with the Goldstein textbook in the bundle
that is sold by the University Bookstore – but on the internet,
some versions of the Goldstein textbook do not come with
an access code.
• If you have a used 4th edition of the textbook, you can buy
an ebook version of the Coglab manual including access
code for $48.00 + tax at CengageBrain.com.
• Several students can share a Coglabs account.
♦
See GoPost message board for contacting students who want to share
an access code. Link to GoPost is on the Psych 355 website.
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Grading
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Grading Scheme
Date
% Grade
Labs & Catalyst
Questionnaires
Assigned on 1st lecture day
of the week. Due by 5 pm
on Monday of the following
week.
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Quizzes
Weekly on 1st lecture day
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Midterm Exam I
Monday April 20
25
(wrongly stated as “April 30” in an
earlier version of this slide)
Midterm Exam II Monday May 18
Final Exam
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Wednesday June 10
2:30 - 4:20 pm in MGH 389
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Info About Exams and Grading
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INFORMATION ABOUT
EXAMINATIONS AND GRADING:
• I will drop your lowest quiz score.
• If you must miss a quiz or a midterm exam, contact the instructor by
telephone, or email BEFORE the quiz or exam in order to get
permission to take a make up quiz or exam.
• Because we post answer keys for exams by Friday on the internet,
we cannot let students take a late exam after Thursday of the week
on which it is given.
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Exception: If you are sick for an entire week, you can receive a different exam
from the rest of the class provided you let us know ASAP that you are sick.
This make-up exam will be an essay exam.
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More Info re Exams & Grading
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INFORMATION ABOUT
EXAMINATIONS AND GRADING:
• The midterm exams and the quizzes are not cumulative.
• The final examination is cumulative.
• Quiz and exam questions are based on material in (i) the textbook;
(ii) lectures; (iii) sections; (iv) labs.
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You are responsible for all of the assigned reading material
even if it was not covered in lecture.
• You will often be asked to do a lab before you have heard a lecture
or read about the relevant experiments. Do not worry about this.
The labs will be graded very leniently. You need to show that you
know what happened in the experiment, but not the theory behind it.
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More Info re Grading
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More Info re Grading
• I grade on a curve but the curve is based on the overall performance
of the class, so I can’t tell you before the end of the quarter what you
will need to score to get a particular grade.
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Example: Typical class
Mean final grade = 3.2
Number of 4.0’s = 3
Number of flunk (< 0.7) = 0
♦
Example: Very good class
Mean final grade = 3.4
Number of 4.0’s = 5
Number of flunk (< 0.7) = 0
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Example: Very bad class
Mean final grade = 2.8
Number of 4.0’s = 1
Number of flunk (< 0.7) = 3
• Is this grading policy fair?
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More Info: Sections & Add Codes
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Monday, March 30, 2015: The Lecture Ended Here
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More Questions
• It’s ok to go to a different section from the one you are enrolled in,
BUT if we run out of room in a section, we will restricted attendance
to people who are actually enrolled in the section.
• I will be giving add codes to students on the waiting list for
Psych 355 as soon as other students drop the course.
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Comment: During this quarter (Spr '15), a few additional students will get add
codes.
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Course Outline: Weeks 1 - 5
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Course Outline
Week
Reading Assignment from Goldstein
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Ch 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Ch 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Ch 3. Perception
3
Ch 4. Attention
4
Ch 5. Short-Term Memory & Working Memory
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Midterm exam on Ch 1 - 4 on Monday April 20.
Ch 6. Long-Term Memory: Structure
Course Outline, Week 6 - 10
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Course Outline
Week
Reading Assignment from Goldstein
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Ch 7: Long-Term Memory: Encoding & Retrieval
Ch 8. Everyday Memory & Memory Errors
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Ch 9. Knowledge
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Ch 10: Visual Imagery
Skip Ch 11. Language
Midterm exam on Ch 5 – 9 on Monday May 18
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Ch 12. Problem Solving
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Ch 13. Reasoning and Decision Making
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Any Questions?
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What is Cognitive Psychology?
• Cognitive psychology attempts to explain how humans
perform cognitive activities.
What are cognitive activities?
• Seeing objects and events in one’s surroundings.
• Remembering something, e.g., facts, personal experiences, etc.
• Understanding what is happening in a situation.
• Communicating through spoken and written language.
• Learning something new, e.g., how to use a computer,
an Ipod, public transportation, introductory statistics, etc.
• Solving problems.
• Making decisions.
• Drawing inferences.
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What is Cog Psych (continued)?
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What is Cognitive Psychology? (cont.)
• Theory of human information processing including perception,
attention, memory, language, reasoning, learning, development
Emphasis on ...
• ... experimental studies of human information processing
(behavioral studies)
• ... brain activity while humans engage in cognitive processing
(cognitive neuroscience)
• ... models of human information processing
(computational modeling)
De-emphasis on: motivation, emotion
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Course Outline
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Course Outline
Week
Reading Assignment from Goldstein
1
Ch 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Ch 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
2
Ch 3. Perception
3
Ch 4. Attention
4
Ch 5. Short-Term Memory & Working Memory
5
Ch 6. Long-Term Memory: Structure
6
Ch 7: Long-Term Memory: Encoding & Retrieval
Ch 8. Everyday Memory & Memory Errors
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Course Outline, Week 6 - 10
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Course Outline
Week
Reading Assignment from Goldstein
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Ch 9. Knowledge (Categorization)
8
Ch 10: Visual Imagery
Skip Ch 11. Language
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Ch 12. Problem Solving
10
Ch 13. Reasoning and Decision Making
Any questions?
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Learning Goals for Psych 355
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Tomorrow
• Brief history of cognitive psychology
• Brief introduction to some of the main methods of cognitive
psychology
• Next: People who need Add Codes for Psych 355, see me now.
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People who are already enrolled in Psych 355, I’ll see you tomorrow.
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Possible Remarks re Add Codes
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If you are hoping to get an add code to Psych 355, ....
• The class is presently full but I will be admitting additional students
if some students drop this class. Priority will be given in the
following order:
1.
2.
3.
Psychology majors who have completed Psych 355 prerequisites:
At least 2.0 grade in Psych 202 and 209.
Non-psych majors who have completed the Psych 355 prerequisites
or who are grad students.
Everybody else
• Students are admitted in the order that their emails requesting
admission arrived in my mail box (the emails have dates).
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