207 ClassIntro
207 ClassIntro
207 ClassIntro
Cognitive Processes
Lecture Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 – 2:20
Room: AL 116
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Psych 207
Cognitive Processes
How to find me…
TA’s
Alexandra alexandra.anacleto@uwaterloo.ca PAS 2248
Vanessa bbdadzie@uwaterloo.ca PAS 2245
Hanbin hanbin.go@uwaterloo.ca PAS 2235
What is Cognitive Psychology?
• Perception • Knowledge
• Attention • Reasoning
• Memory • Decision Making
Date Topic Textbook Chapters
09/7 Syllabus, Course Overview
09/12 History Chapter 1
09/14 The Brain Chapter 2
09/19 Perception Chapter 3
09/21 Perception - continued Chapter 3
09/26 Test #1
09/28 Attention Chapter 4
10/03 Attention – continued
10/05 Memory Structures Chapter 5
10/17 Memory Structures – continued
10/19 Memory Processes Chapter 6
10/24 Test #2
10/26 Concepts and Categorization Chapter 7
10/31 Concepts and Categorization – continued
11/02 Visual Imagery Chapter 8
11/07 Visual Imagery – continued
11/09 Language Chapter 9
11/14 Test #3
11/16 Thinking and Problem Solving Chapter 10
11/21 Thinking and Problem Solving – continued
Requirements
All students enrolled in this course have been set up with a SONA
account. For instructions on how to log in to your SONA account
and for a list of important dates and deadlines please, as soon as
possible go to:
207 Take Home Message
Conscious experience is
an active reconstructive
process
• What you see, hear, and
experience does not directly
correspond to the stimuli in the
world
“what were you thinking”?
“what were you thinking”?
Godden & Baddeley (1975)
• Asked scuba divers to learn a list of words on land
or under water
“what were you thinking”?