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Spring 2010 Syllabus and Lecture Notes

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Week Beginning	Topic	pdf notes	Readings
1/15	Introduction to Course	Foundations.pdf
1/18	Martin Luther King, Jr's Day (no class) A Process Model of Cognition	ProcessModel.pdf	Ch. 1
1/25	Pattern Recognition Sensory Storage	Pattern Recognition.pdf Sensory Storage.pdf	Ch. 2
2/1	Attention & Resource Allocation	Attention.pdf	Ch. 3
2/8	Short-Term Memory	STS.pdf	Ch. 4
2/15	Test 1 2/15: Covers Chapters 1-4 (sample) Functional Dissociation	Dualism.pdf	Ch. 5
2/22	Long-Term Memory: Encoding Distinctiveness	LOP.pdf Distinctiveness.pdf	Ch. 6. pp 125-142
3/1	Long-Term Memory: Forgetting & Retrieval	Forgetting.pdf	Ch. 6 pp. 142-151
3/8	Spring Break		Great Expectations
3/15	Memory Illusions	Reconstruction.pdf	Ch. 11
3/22	Imagery	Imagery.pdf	Ch. 7
3/29	Test 2 3/29: Covers Chapters 5, 6, 11, 7 (sample) Term Paper Assignment 3/31(Don't miss this class!) Cognition and Emotion	Emotion1.pdf	Library Research
4/5	Cognition and Emotion (continued)	Emotion2.pdf
4/12	Semantic Memory Topic Approval due Monday 4/12	SemanticMemory.pdf	Ch. 9
4/19	Language	language.pdf	Ch. 10
4/26	Papers due Monday 4/26 Problem Solving	Problem.pdf	Ch. 12
Wed, 5/5 9:30	Test 3 Covers Chapters 9, 10, 12 (sample)

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