| PSYC 375 (Cognitive Psych.) | |||
| Schedule for Fall 2007; section 1 only | |||
| please note, this schedule is tentative and subject to change | |||
| all reading is in the Galotti text unless otherwise specified | |||
| Date | Topic | Read | Due |
| 8/28 | Introduction | ch. 1 | |
| 8/30 | Historical background and methods | ||
| 9/4 | Cognitive neuroscience | ch. 2 | |
| 9/6 | cognitive neuroscience cont'd | ||
| 9/11 | Perceiving and recognizing objects | ch. 3 | hw. 1 |
| 9/13 | recognizing objects cont'd | ||
| 9/18 | Attention | ch. 4 | hw. 2 |
| 9/20 | attention cont'd | ||
| 9/25 | Review | ||
| 9/27 | Exam #1 | ||
| 10/2 | Short-term memory | ch. 5 | hw. 3 |
| 10/4 | short-term memory cont'd | ||
| 10/9 | Long-term memory | ch. 6 | hw. 4 |
| 10/11 | long-term memory cont'd | ||
| 10/16 | Semantic memory | ch. 7 & 8 | |
| 10/18 | semantic memory cont'd | ||
| 10/23 | Imagery | ch. 9 | paper |
| 10/25 | imagery cont'd | ||
| 10/30 | Review | ||
| 11/1 | Exam #2 | ||
| 11/6 | TBA | ||
| 11/8 | TBA | ||
| 11/13 | Language | ch. 10 | hw. 5 |
| 11/15 | language cont'd | ||
| 11/20 | Thinking and problem solving | ch. 11 | hw. 6 |
| 11/22 | Thanksgiving | ||
| 11/27 | Reasoning | ch. 12 | paper re-write |
| 11/29 | Making decisions | ch. 13 | |
| 12/4 | Review | ||
| Final Exam | |||