Cognitive Psychology: By Stephen R. Schmidt, MTSU

Summer 2009 Syllabus and Lecture Notes

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Class Day
Topic
Lecture notes
Readings
5/11
Introduction to Course
A Process Model of Cognition
Term Paper Assignment
Intro.pdf
ProcessModel.pdf
Ch. 1
5/12
Pattern Recognition
Sensory Storage
Pattern Recognition.pdf
Sensory Storage.pdf
Ch. 2
5/13 Attention
Resource Allocation
Attention.pdf Ch. 3
5/14
Short-Term Memory
STS.pdf
Ch. 4
5/15
Test 1 (Covers Chapters 1-4)
Library research
 for your paper.
5/18 Separating Cognitive Systems
Long-Term Memory: Encoding
Distinctiveness
Paper Topics Due
Dualism.pdf
LOP.pdf
Distinctiveness.pdf
Ch. 5
5/19
Long-Term Memory: Forgetting & Retrieval
 
Forgetting.pdf
Ch. 6
5/20 Memory Illusions
Cognition and Emotion
Reconstruction.pdf
Emotion1.pdf
Emotion2.pdf
Ch. 11
5/21 Imagery Imagery.pdf Ch. 7
5/22
Test 2 (Chapters 5, 6, 11, 7)


Library research
 for your paper.
5/25
Memorial Day - No Class


5/26
Semantic Memory
SemanticMemory.pdf Ch. 9
5/27
Language
Papers due
language.pdf Ch. 10
5/28
Problem Solving Problem.pdf Ch. 12
5/29 Test 3 (Chapters 9, 10, 12)

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