Spring 2016
MWF 8:30 am-9:20 am
Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Room 1105
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Instructor:
| Name | Office | Phone | Office hours | |
| Greg Francis | PSYCH 3186 | gfrancis@purdue.edu | 494-6934 | MWF 2-3 pm |
Text: There is no textbook. Material for exams will be taken from the lectures. If you want to use a textbook, you can use any cognition text from other (present and past) sections of this course, or you can purchase a textbook online. Class notes will be available on the web (see below). The notes are reduced in size so that six slides fit on a single page. You can either download individual lectures (below) or you can download the entire set of lectures notes in a single file (51 MB). There are also optional readings in the schedule below. These readings may help if you are unsure about something or want to explore a topic further.
Lectures: BoilerCast recordings of the lectures will be available as a vodcast. As they become available, the “vodcast” links in the schedule below will become links to the recordings. It sometimes takes a few days for the vodcast to be uploaded. Do not be tricked into believing that you can get the full benefit of the lecture from the BoilerCast recordings. Moreover, the system does not always properly capture the lecture, and sometimes the audio is quite poor. Your best option is to attend the lecture itself and use the vodcast as a way to refresh selected topics.
Class home page: The home page for this course is http://www.psych.purdue.edu/~gfrancis/Classes/PSY200/indexS16.html From this page you can download lecture notes, view the class schedule, view current grades, and connect to the various homework laboratory assignments. This course does not use Blackboard.
Examinations: There will be four section exams and one final exam. The section exams will be in-class and the final exam will be given during the final exam period (do not plan to leave campus early, this course's final exam is sometimes scheduled for the last day of exam week). Each section exam and the final is worth 17% of your class grade. The final will cover all topics of the course. Exams will include a mix of multiple choice and short answer questions. Extensive study guides are available as links in the class schedule below. You might also find it useful to look at old exams from Spring 2012. However, the course was structured a bit differently then, some topics have changed (both added and removed), and the exams for this semester will involve entirely new questions with more short-answer questions and fewer multiple choice questions.
CogLab: CogLab is an Internet site that allows students to participate in classic experiments related to cognitive psychology. You will be given lab assignments throughout the semester. These labs are run through the Internet and can be carried out at any computer lab on campus or at a home computer. Your overall lab grade will make up 15% of your final grade. All the labs are on the Cognitive Psychology Online Laboratory (CogLab) web page at http://coglab.cengage.com. In the schedule below, individual labs are associated with different dates. You must complete the lab by 6:00 am on the date indicated to get credit (better to do it the night before). You will receive log-in instructions in class.
Make-up exams: Make-up exams will not be permitted unless you notify Dr. Francis at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled exam date. Missed exams will receive a grade of 0.
Teaching Assistants:
| Name | Office | Office hours | |
| Amber Hunnewell | Peirce Hall, Room 264 | ahunnewe@purdue.edu | Monday and Wednesday 10:30-11:30 am, Thursday 12-1 pm |
| Jeongho (Johnny) Han | Matthews Hall, Room 326 | han202@purdue.edu | Tuesday 1-2 pm |
Schedule:
The links to the optional readings provide some additional background or related information. You do not need to read this material, but if you are interested in the topic, it is a place to start further exploration.
| Lecture PDF | Lecture vodcast | Date | Topic | CogLab Assignment | Optional Readings |
| 01 | vodcast(there seems to be no sound) | January 11 | Introduction | ||
| 02 | vodcast | January 13 | Brain | Brain asymmetry | The Brain from Top to Bottom, Visual contralateral processing |
| 03 | vodcast | January 15 | Brain scans | ||
| -- | -- | January 18 | Martin Luther King Day (No class) | ||
| 04 | vodcast | January 20 | Mind reading | Video of tongue display unit | |
| 05 | vodcast | January 22 | Neurons and neurotransmitters | The Mind Project | |
| 06 | vodcast | January 25 | Receptive fields | Blind Spot | Receptive field tutorial |
| 07 | vodcast | January 27 | Neural networks | Network simulator | |
| 08 | vodcast | January 29 | Neural learning | Neural Networks | |
| SG1 | -- | February 1 | Review for exam | ||
| -- | -- | February 3 | SECTION EXAM 1 | ||
| 09 | pre-recorded vodcast | February 5 | Visual perception | The Joy of Visual Perception | |
| 10 | vodcast | February 8 | Dynamic vision | Apparent motion | The Joy of Visual Perception - Motion Perception |
| 11 | vodcast | February 10 | Attention | Wikipedia Page | |
| 12 | vodcast | February 12 | Attention | Attentional blink, Visual search | Visual Salience |
| 13 | vodcast | February 15 | Sensory memory | Partial report | |
| 14 | vodcast | February 17 | Two-store model | Brown-Peterson, Serial position | Wikipedia Page, Dewey (2007) |
| 15 | vodcast | February 19 | Working memory | Sternberg search | Wikipedia Page |
| 16 | vodcast | February 22 | Working memory | Memory span, Phonological similarity | |
| SG2 | -- | February 24 | Review for exam | ||
| -- | -- | February 26 | SECTION EXAM 2 | ||
| 17 | vodcast | February 29 | Encoding specificity | ||
| 18 | vodcast | March 2 | Memory discrimination | False memories | |
| 19 | vodcast | March 4 | Constructive memory | Loftus (2003) | |
| 20 | vodcast | March 7 | Amnesia | Wikipedia entry on HM | |
| 21 | vodcast | March 9 | Improving memory 1 | Levels of processing | |
| 22 | vodcast | March 11 | Improving memory 2 | Link word | |
| -- | -- | March 14-18 | Spring Break (No class) | ||
| 23 | vodcast | March 21 | Mental representation | Prototypes | |
| 24 | vodcast | March 23 | Mental imagery | Mental rotation | Wikipedia Page |
| SG3 | vodcast | March 25 | Review for exam | ||
| -- | -- | March 28 | SECTION EXAM 3 | ||
| 25 | vodcast | March 30 | Language instinct | African American Vernacular English | |
| 26 | vodcast | April 1 | Phrase trees | MiniLing | |
| 27 | vodcast | April 4 | Words | Word superiority | Proto Indo European Language |
| 28 | vodcast | April 6 | Parsing | Lexical decision | |
| 29 | vodcast | April 8 | Speech | Categorical Perception - Discrimination | Wikipedia Page on Consonants |
| 30 | vodcast | April 11 | Language development | Age of Acquisition | |
| 31 | vodcast | April 13 | Language and brain | The Brain from Top to Bottom: Language-Procesing Areas, Deciphering the Chatter of Monkeys | |
| 32 | vodcast | April 15 | Consciousness | The Brain from Top to Bottom: Consciousness, Searle and the Chinese Room Argument, | |
| SG4 | -- | April 18 | Review for exam | ||
| -- | -- | April 20 | SECTION EXAM 4 | ||
| 33 | vodcast | April 22 | Decision making | ||
| 34 | vodcast | April 25 | Problem solving | ||
| 35 | -- | April 27 | Current topics | ||
| SGF | -- | April 29 | Review for final exam |