This course is
an advanced introduction to core topics in cognitive psychology. Topics
to be covered include attention memory, problem-solving, imagery,
categorization, action planning, and comprehension. For graduate
students in psychology our goal is to provide a thorough immersion in
these topics that will serve as a foundation for further reading and
research. For students from other programs our goal is to provide
a working knowledge of the domain that will allow you to read primary
literature with a critical eye and investigate specific topics in
greater depth as they become relevant to your field.
Medin, D. L.,
Ross, B. H., & Markman, A. B. (2005). Cognitive
Psychology
(4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. The textbook is
available from the campus bookstore or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.
Readings
In addition to the
textbook, required readings are assigned for each lecture. See the
syllabus for the reading assignments. We also have collected together a
set of supplementary readings for those who would like more background
on a topic or would like to hear about some of the latest findings. In
each directory, readings are named by the last names of one or more
authors and the year of publication, e.g., "Bock99.pdf" is a
chapter by Bock & Huitema, published in 1999. (Chapter numbers are
included in the filenames when more than one chapter of a book has been
assigned.)
To access
the required and supplementary readings, obtain the course login and
password from the instructors.
Printouts of the
lecture slides can be accessed here.
These are also password protected.
When we talk about an experimental paradigm in class, we'll try to post
the original articles that developed that paradigm. We encourage you to
refer to these if you're confused about what happened in a particular
experiment. These source articles will be placed here,
organized by date of lecture. (Not all of the articles are available
for posting, so this will likely be incomplete.) Each lecture's
articles will be collected as a zip archive.