In class:
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- Readings ... Questions?
- Your theories of mind
- Role playing exercise: Your life
as a termite/ant (In
Person, StarLogo)
- In class psych experiment
- Find people to work with
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Required Readings:
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Anderson, J.R. (2005). Chapter 6: Human memory and encoding. In
J.R. Anderson, Cognitive science and its implications (pp.
171-203). Worth Publishers: New York. (Download) |
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Ashcraft, M. (1989). Short-term working memory (pp. 136-185). Scott,
Foresman and Company: Glenview, IL. (Download)
NOTE: This is a little out of date, but it has some ideas curiously
missing from the Anderson reading. |
Suggested Readings:
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Pinker, S. (1997). Chapter 2: Thinking machines. In S. Pinker, How
the mind works (pp. 111-148). W.W. Norton and Company: New
York. (Download) NOTE: The pdf contains more than the required reading,
the rest is optional. |
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Anderson, J.R. (2005). Chapter 2: Perception. In
J.R. Anderson, Cognitive science and its implications (pp.
36-71). Worth Publishers: New York. (Download) |
Homework:
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Reminder: All work for the class is to be turned
in electronically so that others in the class may access your work.
Put it on your web-page, on the e-groups, or whichever way you can
make your work publicly visible. Assignments due next Wed
at 11:59 pm. |
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Your homework this week is to become an experimental cognitive
scientist. There are several experiments that I want you to do
on yourself. Record detailed results on your performance (basically
follow the instructions):
Human
Memory - Test your memory ability.
Memory
Interference - A bit harder :)
Memory
Encoding- explained later.
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Now, do the following
experiment on somebody else.
Now you should do a write-up of what you found. Post: 1) the
actual results from the memory test you performed on someone
else (what the person could and could not recall); 2) short
summary (one or two paragraphs) describing any patterns you see,
and conclusions you can reach, or any explanations you can bring
to bear on the phenomena. |
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Think of possible games and issues that might be worthy of study.
And bring those ideas to class.
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Reminder: One goal in this class is to have an
electronic portfolio ready soon, in which everyone can view your
work. If you can get a website up this week, and post your assignment,
that's great. Make sure you send everyone the link so they know where
it is. If not, post it to the yahoo group and let people know where
it is. |
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It's time to begin work on getting a portfolio up for this course
if you have the web skills already. If you do not yet have web skills,
it is time to start acquiring basic web authoring skills. |
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Reminder: Look at some other students work BEFORE
you get to class on Thursday. Be prepared to talk about one other
student's theory of mind in depth that you found particularly interesting
or worth discussing. |
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