Schedule for Psyc 40

"Chapters" refers to text:
Anderson, J. R. (1995). Cognitive Psychology. 5th Edition. Freeman.

E-numbers are relevant experiments at Tresidder LaIR

Day Date Topics Readings
Tuesday Jan 8 Introduction: History and Conceptualizations Chapter 1
Thursday Jan 10 Perception Chapter 2
E3
Tuesday Jan 15th Attention Lauren Shapiro
Chapter 3
E1, E2, E4
Thursday Jan 17th "Theory of Mind" Max Abelev
pp. 423-440
Tuesday Jan 22nd Representations: Visuospatial Chapter 4
E19,E20
Thursday Jan 24th Representations: Categories Chapter 5 & pp. 367-374
E6, E10
Tuesday Jan 29th Sections Dennett reading in library
Thursday Jan 31st EXAM
Tuesday Feb 5th Memory: STM/LTM Chapter 6
E5, E7, E8, E9, E10
Thursday Feb 7th Memory: Encoding E11, E12, E13
Tuesday Feb 12th Memory:Retrieval Chapter 7
E14, E17
Thursday Feb 14th Computational Modeling Nick Davidenko
Tuesday Feb 19th Spatial Memory
Thursday Feb 21st Problem Solving Chapter 8
Tuesday Feb 26th Language Processing I-Chant Chiang
Chapter 12
E15, E18
Thursday Feb 28th EXAM
Tuesday March 5th Reasoning Chapter 10
Experiment Printouts due
Tuesday March 7th Mental Models Natalia Engavatov
Chapter 9
Tuesday March 12th Decision Making Danny Oppenheimer
Thursday March 14th Judgement E21
Experimental design Due
Wednesday March 20th 7-10pm Final Exam

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