DateTopicGalottiOnline ReadingsAssgnments 

Sept 8

9

11

Intro/Methods

Sensation/Perception 

 

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

 

 

Simons & Levin (1998) 

First Class (not Cog Lab)

Change Blindness 

 14

16

18

 

Attention 

 

Chapter 4

 

Kozlowski & Cutting (1977)

Spelke, et al. (1976) 

 

 

Visual Search 

21

23

25

 

Short Term Memory 

STM / Working Memory

Chapter 5

Strayer & Johnston (2001)

 

 

 

 

Partial Report 

28

30

Oct   2

 

Long Term Memory I

 

Ch 6: pp 161-179 

Baddeley, et al. (1975)

 

Craik & Lockhart (1972) 

Sternberg; Brown-Peterson

 

Encoding Specificity 

5

7

9

 

Exam #1

LTM II

 

 

Ch 6: pp 180-203

  

 12

14

16

Fall Break

 

 

 

 

 

Lotus & Palmer (1974)

McCloskey, et al. (1988) 

 

Schemata (not cog lab)

False Memory

 

 19

21

23

Semantic Memory

 

 

Chapter 7

 

 

 

 

 

Prototypes 

 26

28

30

Imagery

 

Language

Chapter 9

 

Chapter 10

 

Shepard & Metzler (1971)

 

 

Mental Rotation

First Paper Due

Nov   2

4

6

 

 

Exam #2

 

 

 

 

Saffran, et al. (1998)

 

 

Categorical Perception: ID

 

 9

11

13

Problem Solving

 

 

Chapter 11

 

 

 

 

Metcalfe & Wiebe (1987) 

 

Wason Selction Task

 

16

18

20

Decision Making

 

 

Chapter 13

 

 

Harinck, et al. (2007)

Do, et al. (2008)

Louis, et al. (2000) 

 

Risky Decisions

 

23-27

Thanksgiving Break


 

Peer Review Due 

30

Dec   2

4

Individual Diffs: IQ

IQ/Gender

Gender

Chapter 15

 

 

  

 7

9

11

Aging

Culture

Expertise

 

Chapter 16

 

Sandstrom; Crowley

Rahhal, et al. (2001)

Hoffman, et al. (1986) 

 

 14

Final Exam 

 

Reingold, et al. (2001)

 

 
    Final paper due 12/22