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cognitive psychology p335 section 15851 “[Arthur’s brain] could always be replaced,” said Benji reasonably, “if you think it's important.” “Yes, an electronic brain,” said Frankie, “a simple one would suffice.” “A simple one!” wailed Arthur. “Yeah,” said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, “You'd just have to program it to say ‘What?’ and ‘I don't understand’ and ‘Where's the tea?’ — who'd know the difference?” Douglas Adams course overview Taking P335, you’ll become equipped to answer “How” questions of the human mind, such as How do we recognize objects?, How do we remember?, and How do we make decisions? In addressing these questions (through the lens of experimental psychology), mental phenomena are demystified, and you’ll begin considering the human mind as a complex (but not impossibly complex) information processor. This section will take an untraditional approach to Cognitive Psychology. Rather than directly discussing disembodied abstract cognitive facilities (e.g., Attention), you’ll be presented with applied challenges (How do you concentrate on something?). We’ll puzzle through these challenges, reviewing primary source material and using active exploration, hopefully fostering a more relevant and vivid perspective on cognition. section details section 15851, fall 2010 monday august 30th thru friday december 10th meets mondays, wednesdays, and fridays 1:25 to 2:15pm in room PY101 instructors Lead Instructor Ben Motz (please call me Ben) Office: PY A200B [email protected] (812)855-0318 (office phone) Teaching Assistant Ke Sang [email protected] Page 1/8 office hours Ben (in Psych Bldg room A200B) TUESDAY: 2pm – 3:30pm WEDNESDAY: 9am – 10am FRIDAY: 9am – 11am Ke Sang office hours by appointment (or just send him an email—he’ll help!) required materials There will be no textbook in P335. All readings will be provided electronically as PDF files on our Oncourse site. For the priming experiment poster session, your group will be required to produce a poster that describes your project. Your poster may not be more than 5 feet high and/or 4 feet wide. You may use the large format printer in the Wells Library Information Commons ($10 per poster), or you may acquire a sheet of poster paper, and adorn it as you wish. For the public service announcement project, your group will be required to produce (plan, script, film, and edit) a 60-second video. If you have a suitable digital camcorder, or a digital camera that can record video, you are strongly encouraged to use your own equipment for this project. If you do not have a digital video camera, consider purchasing one (or having your parents purchase one for you); they’re really cheap nowadays, and you’ll have much more flexibility in producing your project. If you don’t have a digital video camera, and you can’t purchase one, a very small number of Flip Ultra Camcorders will be available for P335 students to check-out for one-day periods directly from Ben Motz. If you check-out the camcorder, please plan to provide 2 AA batteries (preferably rechargeable) to operate the camcorder. Consumer- and professional-quality video editing software is available on iuware.indiana.edu, and at STC computer labs. Instructional time in P335 will be devoted to video production. grading In-class exams (Units 1, 2, and 4). At the end of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th units, we will hold inclass exams, which will mainly assess your understanding of the readings, what the readings suggest about cognitive phenomena, and how the experiments described apply to everyday cognition. These exams will take place during normal class meeting times (9/20, 10/6, and 11/12), and each are worth 18% of your P335 grade. Unit 3 assignment: Group Priming Experiment. You understand what a “chair” is because you have a lot of direct experience with a chair. You know what they look like and how to use them; you might have a favorite chair, etc. But what about concepts that are difficult to directly objectively observe, like time, love, electricity, etc.? In this group project, you’ll investigate the cognitive tools people use to understand these abstract concepts, and you’ll see if you can manipulate people’s understanding of the concept using a research method called “priming.” Your group will report your results on a poster during an in-class poster session, and you will be quizzed individually on the relevant concepts, which are worth a combined 15% of your P335 grade. You will not be evaluated on the “success” of your experiment. See the “Group Work” section below for more information. Unit 5 assignment: Group Public Service Announcement. People aren’t rational. When someone makes a decision, they usually go with a “gut instinct” or some type of intuition. Cognitive psychologists have learned a great deal about these intuitions (called heuristics), and the situations when these intuitions might lead us astray. Applying what you learn Page 2/8 about these heuristics, your group will create a 60-second video public service announcement (PSA) with the following goal: help people avoid making bad decisions. Additionally, you will be quizzed on the relevant concepts. Together, the quiz and PSA are worth 15% of your grade in P335. You will be taught how to film and edit your PSA. See the “Group Work” section below for more information. Thought Exercises. Four times during the semester, students will be prompted to write a brief summary/analysis of a given topic in Cognitive Psychology. These “thought exercises” will be announced in class, will be submitted electronically via Oncourse within three days of the announcement. They may reflect topics from readings and/or lectures— you will be evaluated on your demonstrated knowledge of relevant material. Each thought exercise is worth 4%, for a combined 16% of your P335 grade. Thought Exercises 16.0% Unit 1 Exam 18.0% There will be no extra credit in P335. Unit 5 Quiz 7.5% Unit 2 Exam 18.0% Unit 5 PSA 7.5% Unit 4 Exam 18.0% Unit 3 Quiz 7.5% Unit 3 Experiment Project 7.5% group work There will be two collaborative (group) activities in P335: the priming experiment (unit 3) and the PSA (unit 5). At the instructors’ discretion, students will be assigned to 4-person groups during the 6th week of the course, based (in part) on responses to an online survey. Attendance in P335 is required during the units when groups will be developing their projects: October 8th - October 27th and November 15th - December 10th (see course schedule on page 7). If you are absent during these dates, your individual grade on the group project will be reduced by 2% for each recorded unexcused absence (you are allowed one absence without penalty for each unit). For each of these two group projects, students will be asked to candidly grade the work of the other groups, the work of their fellow individual group members, and their own work. In this way, grades will be based on the following factors: (1) the quality of your work as assessed by instructors; (2) the quality of your group’s work as assessed by fellow classmates; (3) your individual attendance during the project; (4) your own self-assessment; and (5) your fellow group members’ assessments of your individual contribution. Instructors may take all these factors into account when assigning grades for these projects. Page 3/8 If you have a serious concern or issue regarding the contribution of a fellow group member, or if scheduling issues with your group are preventing you from contributing, please bring it to Ben’s attention (but only after you’ve attempted to settle the issue on your own). letter grade assignment Final letter grades will be assigned according to the table to the right. Plusses, not minuses, will be assigned. “Percent” is calculated by a weighted average of the percent correct on attendance, quizzes, and assignments, adjusting for the percent that each counts toward your final grade. Decimals will be rounded to the nearest percent score. If fewer than 70% of students receive a total percent score of 80% or higher, the instructor reserves the right to proportionately increase all students’ grades (upward curve) to meet this criterion. No student’s grade will be decreased in this situation. This is not a guarantee, and will depend on the shape of the distribution of total percent scores. grade percent A+ A B+ B C+ C D+ D F 97-100 90-96 87-89 80-86 77-79 70-76 67-69 60-66 <=59 academic misconduct You may not use notes, readings, or other aids during P335 exams or quizzes. You may study with other students in preparation for an exam, but your answers on a quiz or exam must be your own. Students are expected to adhere to the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct (http://dsa.indiana.edu/Code/index.html). According to this code, cheating is an “attempt to use or provide unauthorized assistance, materials, information, or study aids in any form and in any academic exercise or environment,” (p7) and it is academic misconduct. Another form of academic misconduct is plagiarism, or using someone else’s ideas and words without appropriate citation on a written assignment. The advent of the web makes it very easy to plagiarize or copy text from other sources. However, it takes effort to create a sentence, and when you use the construction of others you are plagiarizing. Your thought exercises will be processed through TurnItIn.com, a system for assessing the originality of your submitted papers. It will ensure that your writings (in part or in full) haven’t been copied from Wikipedia, other college students’ papers, scholarly articles, websites, and a host of other sources. Do not attempt plagiarism, because you will be caught. Plagiarism is academic misconduct, and cases of plagiarism will be treated as such. Under university policy, all alleged cases of academic misconduct will be reported to the Dean of Students. Disciplinary action in response to these or other forms of academic misconduct may include a grade reduction or “zero” on any quizzes, exams, exercises, or assignments, or in the course, or other actions as determined by the instructor and/or the Dean of Students. missed classes / missed exams / late thought exercises If, during the poster session or PSA showcase, you miss class due to a medical, family, or personal emergency, a brief make-up activity will be assigned to account for missed P335 points. If this is the case, you must provide documentation of the emergency. Page 4/8 If, during a regular class meeting when attendance is required, you miss class due to a medical, family, or personal emergency, no points will be deducted if you provide documentation. You are allowed one unexcused absence without penalty per unit. If you anticipate that you will miss an exam or quiz, tell us about it ahead of time. Reasonable efforts will be made to provide an alternative date/time when you might take the exam. If you miss an exam or quiz for unforeseen reasons, it is your responsibility to tell Ben immediately and make arrangements to account for the missed P335 points. No make-up exams will be provided after the rest of the class has taken the exam. Thought exercises will be graded on a 4-point scale. If you submit a thought exercise late, your grade on the exercise will be reduced by 1 point for each day that it is late. Thus, on the fourth day after the due date, you will not receive credit for your thought exercise. disclaimer This syllabus is an outline of the course and its policies, which may be changed for reasonable purposes during the semester at the instructor’s discretion. You will be notified in class and/or via email if any changes are made to this syllabus, and an updated syllabus will be provided on Oncourse. Page 5/8 course schedule 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 37 38 39 40 41 42 How do you read? How do you make a decision? 3 Unit How do you concentrate on something? 2 Day 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 How do you know what love is? 1 Date Mon, 8/30 Wed, 9/1 Fri, 9/3 Mon, 9/6 Wed, 9/8 Fri, 9/10 Mon, 9/13 Wed, 9/15 Fri, 9/17 Mon, 9/20 Wed, 9/22 Fri, 9/24 Mon, 9/27 Wed, 9/29 Fri, 10/1 Mon, 10/4 Wed, 10/6 Fri, 10/8 Mon, 10/11 Wed, 10/13 Fri, 10/15 Mon, 10/18 Wed, 10/20 Fri, 10/22 Mon, 10/25 Wed, 10/27 Fri, 10/29 Mon, 11/1 Wed, 11/3 Fri, 11/5 Mon, 11/8 Wed, 11/10 Fri, 11/12 Mon, 11/15 Wed, 11/17 Fri, 11/19 Mon, 11/22 Wed, 11/24 Fri, 11/26 Mon, 11/29 Wed, 12/1 Fri, 12/3 Mon, 12/6 Wed, 12/8 Fri, 12/10 How do you recall a person's face? Week Content / Topic Syllabus, Outline, Policies History of Cognitive Psychology Visual Cognition Eye Movements, Saccades, Fixations Recognizing Letters & Words Garden Path & Word Comprehension Speech Recoding and Reading Context While Reading & N400 Semantics and the Mental Lexicon Exam Setting-Up the Scene: Selective Attention Metaphors and Selection Theories Attention & Consciousness Interest and Attention Automatic Processing, ADHD, and Drugs Curiosities of Concentration Exam Team Building What's a concept? Abstract concepts Priming Experiments Conceptual Metaphors Embodiment Gesture Concept Learning and Quiz Poster Session (in IMU Georgian Room) Objects and Faces Perceiving and Learning Faces The Working Memory Model Mental Imagery FFA and Domain Specificity Grandmother Cells and Adaptation Exam Humans are not Rational Decision Making Heuristics 1 Decision Making Heuristics 2 Video Editing and the PSA Attendance Required Required Thanksgiving Break Problem Solving Intuition, Fear, and Risk Morality Creativity Expertise and Quiz PSA Showcase Required There is no final exam in this section of P335. Page 6/8