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Syllabus P140C (68530) Cognitive Science Time/Location 9:30 – 10:50am, Tues/Thurs., PSCB 120, Winter Quarter 2003 Instructor Mark Steyvers. Office: 2109, SSPA. Email: [email protected]. Office hours: 10:30-11:30am, Friday or by appointment. Teaching Assistant Miles Munro. Office: SSL 465. Email: [email protected] Office hours: Tues/Thurs 2:30 – 3:30pm Course Description This is a core course in the psychology major and introduces students to research in cognitive science. We will address three broad questions. How do we acquire knowledge? How do we retain knowledge? How do we use knowledge? Throughout the course, we will discuss experimental findings in areas such as perception, attention, memory, reasoning, and language. Explanations for these findings will come from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing insights from cognitive psychology as well as computer science, neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy. This course serves as an introduction to additional courses in the learning and cognition area. Lectures The format of the course will be lectures and discussion. The lectures will be given in PowerPoint format. In general, copies of each lecture will be available a day before the lecture: around 3pm on Monday for the Tuesday lecture and 3pm on Wednesday for the Thursday lecture. It is highly recommended to print out these lectures beforehand as they will significantly simplify note-taking. In addition, several short videos might be shown on some of the latest research in some cognitive science laboratories. It is expected that these videos will also be available online. Required Text John Anderson (1992). Cognitive Psychology and its implications. Fifth Edition. Worth Publishers.Course Website http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/teachingP140C/ (note: capital P and C) This website contains updates to the syllabus, copies of the lectures, and information on the extra credit assignments. Add-Drop policy This course uses the TELE add/drop system. Students will not be allowed to add this course after the second week of classes. Students who add this course after the first class meeting will be responsible for making up the readings and learning about the material covered in missed lectures. Students may not drop the course or change their grading option after the fifth week of classes except for verified medical excuses. Grading Basis There will be two multiple choice exams as well two shorter quizzes. The exams will cover material from the textbook as well some material that will only be presented in the lectures. In addition, extra credit can be obtained for various assignments (see below). For the midterm exam, the whole class period (1 hour 20 minutes) will be used. The quizzes will take up only 10-15 minutes followed by a lecture. Grades will be calculated on a total point basis (100 point maximum): DATE POINTS TYPE COVERAGE QUIZ 1 1/21 10 multiple choice all material presented so far MIDTERM 2/6 40 multiple choice all material presented so far QUIZ 2 2/25 10 multiple choice all material presented after midterm FINAL 3/20 40 multiple choice all material presented after midterm TOTAL 100 points (note that quiz 2 and the final exam are not cumulative. They cover only material presented after the midterm) In addition, four extra credit assignments are available worth two points each. Points to grade conversion Total class points Grade Total class points Grade 94-100 A 74-76 C 90-93 A- 70-73 C- 87-89 B+ 67-69 D+ 84-86 B 64-66 D 80-83 B- 60-63 D- 77-79 C+ <=59 FReview Session There will a review session before the midterm and final exam where any questions about the material will be answered. These sessions will also provide some general overview information. If you plan to attend these sessions, you are required to hand in a written question at the start of the session. Extra credit assignments There are four extra credit assignments answering questions related to the book as well as some of the videos shown in class. These videos are also available for online viewing. Details will be posted on the website. Each of these assignments is worth a maximum of 2 points (0 = poor, 1=fair, 2=good). Therefore, over all four assignments, a maximum of 8 points can be earned that will be added to your regular point score. The answers to the questions have to be typed and printed. Handwritten answers will not be accepted. Emailed answers will also not be accepted. The answers are due in class before the following due dates (late assignments will not be accepted): #1: 2/18, #2: 2/25, #3: 3/4, #4: 3/11Class Schedule and Readings Week Date Topic Readings Activity 1/7 Overview of course 1 1/9 Foundations Ch. 1 pp. 1-16 1/14 Neural basis for cognition Ch. 1 & Ch. 2. pp. 16-44 2 1/16 Perception Ch. 2. 47-72 1/21 QUIZ 1 3 1/23 Attention Ch. 3 1/28 Perception-based knowledge representations Ch. 4 4 1/30 Meaning-based knowledge representations Ch. 5 2/4 -- REVIEW SESSION 5 2/6 -- MIDTERM 2/11 6 2/13 Human Memory: Encoding and Storage Ch. 6 2/18 extra credit #1 due 7 2/20 Human Memory: Retention and Retrieval Ch. 7 2/25 QUIZ 2 extra credit #2 due 8 2/27 Reasoning and Decision Making Ch. 10 3/4 extra credit #3 due 9 3/6 Language Structure Ch. 11 3/11 Language Comprehension Ch. 12 extra credit #4 due 10 3/13 --- REVIEW SESSION 11 3/20 8am – 10am FINAL


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