COGNITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY WEB PAGE
EXP 4680
TUESDAYS 6:00 PM - 8:50
PM
TEXTBOOK:
Matlin's companion web site: includes on line study
guide that gives students access to web activities, web links, and the
opportunity to try self-quizzes..
Matlin,
M. W. (2009). Cognition (7th
Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.
COURSE
SYLLABUS FALL 2012
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copy of the course syllabus for Cognitive Psychology (EXP 4680).
CLASS
SCHEDULE AND IMPORTANT DATES
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list of assigned readings by week and examination dates.
LECTURE
OUTLINES
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linked list of the transparencies that have been shown in class so that
you may print or save your own copy.
EXAM REVIEWS
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each exam.
RESEARCH
PARTICIPATION
I will accept up to 10
extra-credit
points from the Psychology Department's sponsored research studies
taking
place on the USF S-M campus (note – there is no guarantee that any
studies will
take place during the fall 2012). Research
participation opportunities may be announced in class, posted in
BlackBoard, or on a USF SM website.
Student Research Symposium USF
SM - This event is held on the USF SM campus each fall and
you can earn extra-credit
in this course for attending this event. Students are encouraged to
submit their research, visual arts, and performing arts projects
mentored by
USF SM faculty.
ADOBE
READER:
You will need Adobe Reader to access a number of files on this
webpage
and others. If you do not have an acrobat reader installed on
your
computer click on this link and you can download one from adobe's
website.
COGNITIVE RELATED PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Society for Applied Research in
Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)
Association for
Psychological Science (APS)
Psychonomic Society
COGNITIVE & NEURAL SCIENCES FACULTY IN THE
PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT USF
Clicking on these links will take you to comprehensive sites dedicated
to Cognitive Psychology as well as Web pages of faculty members doing
research in the area of Cognitive Psychology.
Judith Becker
Bryant - USF faculty member and Area Director (Cognitive and Neural
Sciences) whose research interests include the following: Language
Development, Pragmatics, Language and Social Competence, Family
Influences, and Literacy in Spanish-English Bilingual Children.
Cynthia Cimino
- USF faculty member whose research research interest
include the following: Neuropsychology - emotion, attention, memory,
degenerative disorders.
David Diamond-
USF faculty member whose research research interest
include the following: Physiology of Behavior, Psychology of Learning,
Neurobiology of Memory, Disturbance of Brain and Behavior by Stress.
Emanuel
Donchin - USF faculty member and Department Chair whose
research research interest
include the following: cognitive psychophysiology.
Cheryl
Kirstein - USF faculty member whose research research interest
include the following: Physiological Psychology, Behavior Pharmacology,
and Basic Neurochemistry.
Ken
Malmberg - USF faculty member whose research research interest
include the following: Investigates the
processes and representations involved in human memory.
Cathy
McEvoy - USF faculty member whose research research interests
include the following: Aging and memory, false memory, implicit memory,
and the influence of pre-existing knowledge on the recall and
recognition of recently experienced information.
Doug
Rohrer - Memory Retrieval, Dynamical Judgments.
Christine
Ruva
- Applied Memory: application of cognitive research and theory to the
legal system.
Thomas
Sanoki - USF faculty member whose research interests include the
following:
Scene Perception, Object Recognition, Visual Attention, the Time Course
of
Perception, Computation Models of Perception and Cognition, Reading and
Learning
to Read, Processing Consequences of the Self-schema.
Sandra
Schneider - USF faculty member whose research interests include
the following: Issues of judgment and decision making, including how
the
way information is described or 'framed' influences decisions and
behavior,
the influence of framing in such contexts as making risky decisions,
and
people's metacognitive abilities or their ability to predict how well
they
perform at a variety of tasks.
Toru Shimizu
- USF faculty member whose research interests include
the following: Comparative Psychology, Psychology of Learning,
Physiological Psychology, Methods in Neurosciences, and Neuroscience
Seminar.
MEMORY & LEARNING LINKS
Clicking on these links will take you to comprehensive sites dedicated
to Memory.
Recovered
Memories from Child
Sexual Abuse - A highly controversial topic, the author of this
website provides you with many links to other research as well as his
own
research on the repressed memories in victims of child sexual abuse.
Memory Links and the Human
Brain -This site leads you through an interactive brain atlas and
many more resources for the study and understanding of human memory
The Dynamics of Human Memory
- How much do we know about the workings of human memory? What are its
abilities and limits? How has our understanding of the phenomenon
evolved, and in what way is current scholarship changing our
traditional conceptions?
Great Memory Games - Try
some of these scored memory games for fun. Lots of other cool links and
information on the website.
APA Journal - Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Gary
Wells' Web Site: A lot of information on Eyewitness Testimony
Cognitive
Psychology in The News: A lot of interesting new articles
discussing scientific findings of memory research.
Interesting
Links for all areas of Cognitive Psychology
Learning
Styles: Concepts and Evidence: Pashler, H.,
McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork,
R. (2008). Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence: Psychology
in the Public Interest, 9 (3).
SENSATION & PERCEPTION LINKS
The
Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book. Explore some of the
most interesting visual phenomena all in one place on the web. Contains
an extensive library of visual illusions and phenomena that
are recreated using computers. Excellent!
The San
Francisco Exploratorium: Illusion, Vision, and Perceptual Examples:
A very neat link to some interesting sensation and perception
activities from the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Color
Vision: the module does feature an interactive additive color
mixer, a java applet that allows students to explore the sensitivity of
various types of cone, and several interactive features that go beyond
the material in an ordinary textbook.
The
Senses Challenge: This is a test of you perceptual
knowledge.
Center for
Sensation and Perception- This site displays many resources for
psychology students and is
maintained by Athabasca University. Go here to see actual experiments
and to participate.
Visual Illustrations
and Demonstrations - Here is collection of slides that can be used
as illustrations and demonstrations for sensation and perception.
Psychological
Tutorials and Demonstrations - This is a page that contains links
to hypertext tutorials in psychology.
Sensation and Perception
Jeopardy - Go here to play the ever popular game "Jeopardy" with
psychology facts and terms.
Sensation and Perception
Tutorials - Here is a small collection of tutorials and
demonstrations related to our senses.Choose a topic and have fun.
Optical
Illusions & Visual Phenomena - Over 55 optical issusions.
DECISION MAKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY, & INTELLIGENCE LINKS
Problem Solving - Reliable
problem solving
in all subjects that use mathematics for
problem solving. Algebra, Physics, Chemistry from grade school to grad
school and beyond.
LANGUAGE LINKS
Neuro-cognitive
Structure in the Interplay of Language and Thought - An essay that
examines the implications of the Whorfian-Sapir hypothesis.
Dr.
Judith Becker Bryant - USF faculty member and associate chair of
the Psychology Department whose research interests include the
following: Language Development, Pragmatics, Language and Social
Competence, and Family Influences.
Interactive
Articulation
Alpha
Dictionary: Dictionary of many of
the languages of the world with language translators
Praat:
Doing phonetics by computer
Spoonerisms
The Brain and
Language
CONSCIOUSNESS & ATTENTION LINKS
Amoeba Web - This site is
dedicated to the states of consciousness. It contains many
interesting and informative resources for psychology students. Tons of
fun and information
Franz Anton Mesmer - The
word "mesmerize" means to hold one's attention as though
that person were in a trance. Such was the popularity of Franz Mesmer,
whose unorthodox methods of treating illness were highly popular with
his patients. Read more here.
The
Stroop Effect -
See how quickly and accurately you can perform this simple color test.
GENERAL COGNITIVE LINKS
Amoeba Web - This site has all
kinds of Psychology associated links.
Please direct questions about this site to Christine Ruva ruva@usf.edu