Cognition

• Rutgers University Psychology 01:830:305, Spring 2006
• Meeting time & place
• Section 2:  Mon Thur 2nd period (10:20 - 11:40 am), LCB 102 (Livingston Campus)
• Section 3:  Mon Thur 3rd  period (12:00 - 1:20 pm), LCB 102 (Livingston Campus)
• Professor:  Dr. Gretchen Chapman, (gbc@rci.rutgers.edu)
• Office hours Thursdays 3:20 - 4:40, room 215, Psychology Building, 445-2640
• Teaching Assistant: Jason Glushakow (herkjason@aol.com)
• Office Hours: Mondays 5:00-6:00 pm, room 511, Tillett Hall

Announcements:

• Final Exam scores and course grades are now posted on FAS Gradebook
• Legitimate reasons to ask about your grade:

• You received a T grade or missed an exam.
• The gradebook shows you are missing an exam, but you really took that exam.
• An error in recording your grade (e.g., your bluebook says 20 but the gradebook shows 15).

• Grade queries that will not merit a response.

• You need a higher grade in order to graduate, keep your scholarship, etc.
• You want to do extra credit to improve your grade (There are no extra credit opportunities)
• You studied really hard but still did poorly on the exams.

Date	Topic	Readings Assignments
1/19	Introduction	Chapter 1
1/23	Learning	Chapter 2
1/26	Perception	Chapter 3
1/30	Attention I	Chapter 4
2/02	no class	Dr. Chapman was ill
2/06	Attention II	none
2/09	MIDTERM 1
2/13	Memory I	Chapters 5 & 6
2/16	Memory II	Chapter 7
2/20	Memory III	Loftus, E.F. (2004).  Memories of things unseen.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 145-147.
2/23	Imagery	Chapter 8
2/27	Language I	Chapter 9
3/02	Language II	none
3/06	MIDTERM 2
3/09	Concepts & categories	Chapter 10
3/20	Reasoning I	Chapter 11
3/23	Reasoning II	Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., & Girotto, V. (2004). How we detect logical inconsistencies.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 41-45.
3/27	Problem solving	Chapter 12
3/30	Expertise	Chapter 13
4/03	Creativity	none
4/06	MIDTERM 3
4/10	Cognitive development	Baillargeon, R. (2004).  Infants' Physical World.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 89-94.
4/13	Intelligence	none
4/17	Judgment of uncertainty	Chapter 14
4/20	Decision Making I	Kahneman, D. (2003).  A perspective on judgment and choice:  Mapping bounded rationality.  American Psychologist, 58, 697-720.
4/24	Decision Making II	none
4/27	Class Cancelled	Dr. Chapman was ill
5/01	Decision Making III	Read this article: Schwartz, J.A., Chapman, G.B., Brewer, N.T., & Bergus, G.B. (2004).  The effects of accountability on bias in physician decision making: Going from bad to worse.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 173-178. You are not responsible for this article: Lerner, J.S., Gonzalez, R.M., Small, D.A., & Fischhoff, B.(2003).  Effects of fear and anger on perceived risk of terrorism.  Psychological Science, 14, 144-150.
Friday May 5 8 - 11 am	FINAL EXAM  for section 3
Wed May 10 12 - 3 pm	FINAL EXAM  for section 2

Textbook: Medin, D.L., Ross, B.H., Markman, A.B. (2005).  Cognitive Psychology, 4th Ed.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  ISBN 0-471-45820-1

Exams

• Grades
• Study guides for Midterm #1, Midterm #2, Midterm #3, Final Exam
• Answers to essays for Midterm #1, Midterm2, Midterm#3
• FAQ about exam procedures
• Study guides from previous versions of this class
• Practice exam questions from old exams.

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Related Links

• Try doing a PsycINFO search
• Rutgers Cognitive Science Center (RuCCS) & colloquium series
• Undergraduate research opportunities with Dr. Chapman or other psych faculty
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making (J/DM)
• Cognitive Science Society (CSC)
• Journals
• Memory & Cognition (M&C)
• Cognitive Psychology (CP)
• JEP: Learning, Memory, & Cognition (LMC)
• Applied Cognitive Psychology (ACP)

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