EXP 6099: Survey of Cognitive & Sensory Processes

Contact Information

Instructor: Stephen Blessing (PSY 86, x2-1970, blessing@psych.ufl.edu)

Office hours: Monday & Tuesday, 2 - 4 pm
Main course homepage

Paper Topics

Almost any of the major subheadings from our textbook:

Anderson, J. R. (1993). Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications. W.H. Freeman and Company: New York, NY.

would be appropriate for a paper topic. The major topics that I will be stressing in my part of the course will be memory and problem solving issues (chapters 5 through 9, and chapter 13 to some extent), whereas the language and reasoning chapters (10 through 12) will receive less coverage. Chapters 3 and 4 (attention and perceptionbased knowledge representations) will get "middling" coverage. An annotated list of these headings is provided.

Tentative Schedule

Below is the tentative schedule for my part of the class. We will be going through most of the book in a relatively short amount of time, so it is important that you keep up with the reading. In trying to balance breadth v. depth, I have assigned whole chapters for most days, but in class we will only have time to talk about one or two topics, which are highlighted in the italicized line for each day. However, come to class with questions on any part of the chapter, and of course, be prepared to be tested on it.

March 1997

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

17
Automaticity
Chapter 3

18

19
Mental Imagery
Chapter 4

20

21

24
Schemas
Chapter 5

25

26
Activation-based memory
Chapter 6

27

28

31
Different kinds of memory
Chapter 7

April 1997

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

2
Problem solving as search
Chapter 8

3

4

7
Representation
Chapter 8

8

9
What it means to be an expert
Chapter 9

10

11

14
Making decisions
Chapter 10

15

16
Acquisition & Text Processing
Chapters 11 & 12

17

18

21
IQ Testing
Chapter 13

22

23
Wrap-up &
Review

Final Exam
Saturday, April 26
8-10 pm

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