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Topic |
Text Chapter |
Chapter or Article |
| Wed 1/5 |
Introduction and History |
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| Mon 1/10 |
Learning |
2 |
Skinner, B. F. (1950). Are theories of learning
necessary? Psychological Review, 57, 193-216 |
| Wed 1/12 |
Learning |
2 |
►Urushihara, K., Stout, S. C., & Miller, R. R. (2004).
The basic laws of conditioning differ for elemental cues and cues trained in
compound. Psychological Science, 15, 268-271. |
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| Mon 1/17 |
No class – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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| Wed 1/19 |
Perception |
3 |
Wertheimer, M. (1938). Laws of organization in
perceptual forms. In W. Ellis (Ed. & Trans.), A Source Book of Gestalt
Psychology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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| Mon 1/24 |
Perception |
3 |
►Rensink, R. A. (2004). Visual sensing without
seeing. Psychological Science, 15, 27-32. |
| Wed 1/26 |
Attention |
4 |
Kahneman, D., & Treisman, A. (1984). Changing views
of attention and automaticity. In R. Parasuraman (Ed.) Varieties of
Attention. New York: Academic Press. |
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| Mon 1/31 |
Attention |
4 |
►Laeng, B., Svartdal, F., & Oelmann, H. (2004). Does
color synesthesia pose a paradox for early-selection theories of attention?
Psychological Science, 15, 277-281. |
| Wed 2/2 |
Exam 1 |
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| Mon 2/7 |
Memory: Remembering New Information |
5 |
Atkinson, R. C., & Shiffrin, R. (1968). Human memory:
A proposed system and its control processes. In K. Spence & J. Spence
(Eds.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 2). New York:
Academic Press. (You are responsible only for sections I, II, and III) |
| Wed 2/9 |
Memory: Remembering New Information |
5 |
►Baddeley, A. (2001). Is working memory still
working? American Psychologist, 56, 851-864. |
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| Mon 2/14 |
Memory Systems and Knowledge |
6 |
Collins, A. M., & Quillian, M. R. (1969). Retrieval
time from semantic memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal
Behavior, 8, 240-247. |
| Wed 2/16 |
Memory Systems and Knowledge |
6 |
►May, C. P., Hasher, L., & Foong, N. (2005). Implicit
memory, age, and time of day paradoxical priming effects. Psychological
Science, 16, 96-100. |
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| Mon 2/21 |
Remembering New Information: Beyond Basic Effects |
7 |
►Gonsalves, B., Reber, P. J., Gitelman, D. R., Parrish,
T. B., Mesulam, M., & Paller, K. A. (2004). Neural evidence that vivid
imagining can lead to false remembering. Psychological Science, 15,
655-660. |
| Wed 2/23 |
Spatial Knowledge, Imagery, and Visual Information |
8 |
Shepard, R. N., & Metzler, J. (1971). Mental rotation
of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171, 701-703. |
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| Mon 2/28 |
Spatial Knowledge, Imagery, and Visual Information |
8 |
Novick, L. R., Hurley, S. M., & Francis, M. (1999).
Evidence for abstract, schematic knowledge of three spatial diagram
representations. Memory & Cognition, 27, 288-308. |
| Wed 3/2 |
Exam 2 |
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| Mon 3/7 |
Language |
9 |
►Katz, A. N., Blasko, D. G., & Kazmerski, V. A.
(2004). Saying what you don’t mean: Social influences on sarcastic language
processing. Current Direction in Psychological Science, 13, 186-189. |
| Wed 3/9 |
Concepts and Categories: Representation and Use |
10 |
Lynch, E. B., Coley, J. D., & Medin, D. L. (2000).
Tall is typical: Central tendency, ideal dimensions and graded category
structure among tree experts. Memory and Cognition, 28, 41-50. |
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| Mon 3/14 |
Reasoning |
11 |
Johnson-Laird, P. N., Legrenzi, P., & Girotto, V.
(2004). How we detect logical inconsistencies. Current Directions in
Psychological Science, 13, 41-45. |
| Wed 3/16 |
Problem Solving |
12 |
►Grant, E. R., & Spivey, M. J. (2003). Eye movements
and problem solving: Guiding attention guides thought. Psychological
Science, 14, 462-466. |
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| Mon 3/28 |
No class – Easter recess |
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| Wed 3/30 |
Expertise and Creativity |
13 |
►Burns, B. D. (2004). The effects of speed on skilled
chess performance. Psychological Science, 15, 442-447. |
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| Mon 4/4 |
Judgment and Decision Making |
14 |
Oppenheimer, D. M. (2004). Spontaneous discounting of
availability in frequency judgment tasks. Psychological Science, 15,
100-105. |
| Wed 4/6 |
No Class – Stander Symposium |
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| Mon 4/11 |
Exam 3 |
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| Wed 4/13 |
Presentations 1 & 2 |
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| Mon 4/18 |
Presentations 3 & 4 |
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| Wed 4/20 |
Presentations 5 & 6 |
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| Mon 4/25 |
Presentations 7 & 8 |
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| Wed 4/27 |
Presentations 9 & 10 |
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