Cognitive Psychology: By Stephen R. Schmidt, MTSU

Summer 2012 Syllabus and Lecture Notes

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Class Day
Topic
Lecture notes
Readings
5/14
Introduction to Course
A Process Model of Cognition
Foundations.pdf
ProcessModel.pdf
Ch. 1
5/15
Pattern Recognition
Sensory Storage
Pattern Recognition.pdf
Sensory Storage.pdf
Ch. 2
5/16 Attention
Resource Allocation
Attention.pdf Ch. 3
5/17
Short-Term Memory
STS.pdf
Ch. 4
5/18
Test 1 (Covers Chapters 1-4)
Term Paper Assignment

Library research
 for your paper.
5/21 Separating Cognitive Systems
Long-Term Memory: Encoding
Distinctiveness
Paper Topics Due
Dissociations.pdf
LOP.pdf
Distinctiveness.pdf
Ch. 5
5/22
Long-Term Memory: Forgetting & Retrieval
 
Forgetting.pdf
Ch. 6
5/23 Memory Illusions
Cognition and Emotion
Reconstruction.pdf
Emotion1.pdf
Emotion2.pdf
Ch. 11
5/24 Imagery Imagery.pdf Ch. 7
5/25

Test 2 (Chapters 5, 6, 11, 7)


Library research
 for your paper.
5/28
Memorial Day - No Class


5/29
Semantic Memory
Papers due
SemanticMemory.pdf Ch. 9
5/30
Language
language.pdf Ch. 10
5/31
Problem Solving Problem.pdf Ch. 12
6/1 Test 3 (Chapters 9, 10, 12)

Last Modified 5/4/2012

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