1 Final Exam It is psydo cumlilative 2 3 based on last 1 3 of course and 1 3 based on first 2 3 of course Essay s will be integrative So from different aspects of the course About 60MC and pick 2 3 essay s Mid term Multiple choice large from book and lecture Choice of essay questions 2 3 large integrative questions Day 1 08 27 2013 Office Hours Wednesday 1 3 Science IV 204 Email kkurtz binghamton edu Cognitive psychology Definition The psychological approach to studying the mind This means using experimental techniques to call out systematic observations of behavior that reveal to use the underlying mechanics of the mind Quotes Genius is little more than perceiving in an unhabitual way Our brain works in a habitual ways and this is needed to be able to experience the world This quote says that you should live your life in a way that doesn t let your mind work by itself You re mind is able to escape the norm The most is achieved when one gets past the mundane way of thinking We are going to try to understand the default computation of the world and also study the way the mind could enable us to do more than the mundane What we are going to learn We don t see things as they are we see things as we are Constructive We are not just taking raw information into our mind we put our subjective spin on our experience Immanuel Kant What we know and how we think shapes what we think Learning Objectives in this course I want to comprehend my mind ability to control my brain and the mechanisms that enable me to do so I want to internalize these mechanisms which will lead to my transformation into an even better human being Bloom s Taxonomy Levels of Teaching 1 Remember 2 Understand 3 Apply 2 4 Highest Level Analyze Evaluate Create Teaching Objectives 1 Understand the issues major theories and supporting evidence in the science of cognitive psychology 2 Apply and extend this knowledge in novel ways 3 Critically evaluate theories and evidence 4 Generate scientific approaches to a question 5 Increased metacognitive awareness and cognitive capabilities Tests concept Part 1 multiple choice questions show that you can apply or understand the Part 2 essays Room to show improvement and then an increase in grades Homework Not a lot of them and it is writing Day 2 08 29 2013 Tools and Approaches in the Study of Cognition What is the nature of cognitive activity Picture one baby touching the oven Problem solving Curiosity Picture 2 and 3 Caution We want to make sure that we survive Pain Regret Sadness Learning This makes sure we do not make the same mistakes over and over again and allows us to interact with the world in more safely or in a better way than the past Conflict fear and curiosity We do not always have clear ways of interpreting the world so the man on the bottom left wants to touch it but is scared He has an idea that the stove is hot but he wants to experience with his senses rather than leave it as an idea We always try and collect this empirical evidence to help Most times the things that we think are not as clean and clear as us live in this world we think they actually are 3 Thoughts Language they mean Reasoning is Meta cognition A lot of our thinking happens very fast before we are aware of it Good News for People who love bad news We have the ability to see these letters and understand what We are able to understand what the connotation of a sentence This sentence could make you think about other times or things Knowledge based stimulus This could remind you about a music album title and it could remind you about memories of this album What Makes of Smart Class Ideas Independent thought Adaptation Computation Survival Problem Solving What do we mean by smart Are we really so smart We become stupider in groups We mean is the ability to stay alive and be productive and effective in the world In some aspects we become smarter by collaboration We think the best when we talk to each other Technology Is this impact good or bad Are computers smarter than we are We cannot reason better We are better at innovating We are not fundamentally logical computers are Emotions can make us crazy or make us smarter Flaws Special Bias All the flaws that we have lead us to thinking we are special We automatically think we are special and we not actually be all that Components that make us smart 1 Perception special like We are able to respond to what is out there and know what our world is 4 This is no human smartness without learning From simple to complex 2 Learning learning 3 Memory 4 Inference 5 Generalizations Fundamentally what makes our system go is that we are able to store information away and get the information when we need it We know more than what we have been told If thats true than here is what else is probably true We are able to see a bunch of things that go together to make a abstract idea Something that applied to one case also applies to another case that is not exactly similar LAw 6 Perspective Taking 7 Language Our ability to get outside our own selves We can image what it is like to be in someone elses shoes Image a situation that we are not exactly in The kinds of thinking we are capable of would be fundamentally limited without the complex language we have to work with We are able to focus and select and not be overwhelmed by information and not be random in how we evaluate information 8 Abstraction Same as generalizations 9 Consciousness Something there 10 Attention Very close to perspective taking Our feelings can color our thoughts 11 Imagination 12 Emotions 13 Planning forms 14 Explanation The way we can coordinate our thinking and actions into systematic We want to know why rather than just take things We want to be able to explain how and why things work 15 Coherence Seeking we have this drive to make something come together to make sense There is a fundamental part that wants the information that is available make sense together How do we look at this stuff scientifically Cognition is a hard place to do science because Introspection Turn of the 20th century 5 Black Box Introspection Think Aloud We see what goes in and see what goes out but there is no insight to what goes on in the mind itself but we do know what goes on in our own mind We have this special access to our own mind and understand it When I spoke to the person next to me in class CLASS EXPERIMENT It was hard to put those words into language The mind works much faster than you can express those states