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
     Clicking on this link will take you to a copy of the course syllabus for Cognitive Psychology (EXP 4680).

CLASS SCHEDULE AND IMPORTANT DATES
     Clicking on this link will provide you with a list of assigned readings by week and examination dates.

LECTURE OUTLINES
     Clicking on this link will provide you with a linked list of the transparencies that have been shown in class so that you may print or save your own copy.

EXAM REVIEWS
   Clicking on this link will provide you with reviews for 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