PSYC 2145: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

• Instructor: Matt Mollison, M.A.
• Office: Muenzinger D434 (fourth floor, by the elevator)
• Office hours: Monday: 11am—12pm, Thursday: 11am—12pm, or by appointment
• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: N/A, please contact me via email

Course information

• PSYC 2145, section 200
• My course website: http://psych.colorado.edu/~mollison/class/psyc2145/
• Desire2Learn: https://learn.colorado.edu

Class meetings

• Summer 2012, Term B (Tuesday, July 10 to Friday, August 10)
• Monday through Friday from 9:15am to 10:50am
• Muenzinger E113 (alternative map)

Syllabus (subject to change)

• http://psych.colorado.edu/~mollison/class/psyc2145/psyc2145_syllabus.pdf

Synthesis essay rubric (also in the syllabus)

• http://psych.colorado.edu/~mollison/class/psyc2145/psyc2145_essayRubric.pdf

Final exam time

• Last day of class: Friday, August 10

Materials

Readings

• Goldstein, E. B. (2011, 3rd Edition). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  • ISBN: 9780840033550
  • One third-edition copy on reserve at the Norlin Library circulation desk. (There is also a first-edition copy, but please use the third when possible.)

Lectures

• Tuesday July 10
  • Introduction
• Wednesday July 11
  • Chapter 1, History
• Thursday July 12
  • Chapter 2, Cognitive Neuroscience
• Friday July 13
  • Chapter 3, Perception
  • Review
• Monday July 16
  • Chapter 3, Perception, continued
  • Chapter 4, Attention
• Tuesday July 17
  • Chapter 4, Attention, continued
• Wednesday July 18
  • Chapter 5, Short-Term and Working Memory
• Thursday July 19
  • Chapter 5, Short-Term and Working Memory, continued
  • Review (have questions ready)
• Friday July 20
  • Assessment test 1 (Chapters 1-5)
• Monday July 23
  • Chapter 6, Long-Term Memory: Structure
• Tuesday July 24
  • Chapter 7, Long-Term Memory: Encoding and Retrieval
• Wednesday July 25
  • Long-Term Memory catch-up
• Thursday July 26
  • Chapter 8, Everyday Memory Errors
• Friday July 27
  • Synthesis essay extra credit deadline
  • Memory catch-up
  • Review (have questions ready)
• Monday July 30
  • Chapter 9, Knowledge Representation
• Tuesday July 31
  • Chapter 10, Visual Imagery
• Wednesday August 1
  • Chapter 11, Language
• Thursday August 2
  • Language catch-up
  • Review (have questions ready)
• Friday August 3
  • Assessment test 2 (Chapters 6-10)
• Monday August 6
  • Synthesis essay final deadline
  • Chapter 12, Problem Solving
• Tuesday August 7
  • Language guest lecture (Kate Phelps): Linguistic Relativity
• Wednesday August 8
  • Chapter 13, Reasoning and Decision Making
• Thursday August 9
  • Problem Solving and Reasoning and Decision Making catch-up
  • Review (have questions ready)
• Friday August 10
  • Assessment test 3 (Chapters 11-13, plus some concept questions from chapters 1-10)

Supplementary materials

• Check Desire2Learn for material such as:
  • interesting journal articles
  • interesting links
  • select chapters from the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
    • Sacks, O. (1985). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. London: Duckworth; New York: Summit Books.
    • This book is also on reserve at the Norlin Library circulation desk if you want to read other chapters.
• APA format (for your essay)
  • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Videos

• http://psych.colorado.edu/~mollison/class/psyc2145/videos.html

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