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Reading Activity Week #14 (Due around Tuesday)

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This is similar to last week's assignment.

Of the chapters we have left to cover in your text - please pick one that is most interesting to you and read that for this assignment.

Briefly discuss why you picked this chapter and how it might build on your interests of cognitive psychology.

Of the various aspects of cognitive psychology presented in the chapter, which did you find the most interesting? Why? Which did you find least interesting? Why? What are three things you read about in the chapter that you think will be the most useful for you in understanding the cognitive psychology? Why?

How does this chapter build on and extend what you have been learning this semester in the cognitive psychology class and other class you have taken?

Please make sure you use the terms, terminology and concepts you have learned so far in the class. It should be apparent from reading your post that you are a college student well underway in a course in cognitive psychology.

Please use spaces between your paragraphs to make your post easier to read - thanks in advance.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #12 (Due around Tuesday)

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Please read the chapters from your text that deals with the material covered in the powerpoint notes I sent our earlier as an email attachment (Verbal Representation of Knowledge and mental Representation of Knowledge). Next, find three topics from the notes that are of interest to you (and something that you haven't posted on already) and discuss what your text has to say on those topics. Next indicate two topics that you would like me to cover in more depth in class.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #11 (Due Thursday)

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Please read the chapter from your text that deals with the Verbal Representation of Knowledge. Next, find three topics from the chapter that are of interest to you and discuss what your text has to say on those topics. Next indicate two topics that you would like me to cover in more depth in class.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #9 (Due Thursday)

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Please look though the 'Memory Observed" book. Find a chapter that interests you.

State what the chapter is and breifly discuss the main topics and concepts that were brought up in the chapter.

What are some questions you have after reading the chapter?

Next go to your textbook and see what it has to say about the topics raised in the chapter. This might be difficult so if there is even something remotely similar in the text go ahead and read up on that. When you have done this, please respond to the following questions.

What did your text have to say about the topics raised in this chapter? What information was provided in the text? What additional details did your text provide?

What did you think about this chapter? Why? What are three things you will remember from what you read in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you really liked that was in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you disliked that was in the chapter? Why? What do you now know about your brain that you didn't know before reading the chapter? Has this chapter made you think about other issues related to cognitive psychology? How does this chapter (if at all) relate to the material in the AoM chapters?

Please make sure you use the terms, terminology and concepts you have learned so far in the class. It should be apparent from reading your post that you are a college student well underway in a course in psychology.

Include a list of the terms and concepts you used in your post. (example - Terms: memory, cortex, visual system....)

Please use spaces between your paragraphs to make your post easier to read - thanks in advance

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #8 (Due Thursday)

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Please look though the 'Memory Observed" book. Find a chapter that interests you.

State what the chapter is and breifly discuss the main topics and concepts that were brought up in the chapter.

What are some questions you have after reading the chapter?

Next go to your textbook and see what it has to say about the topics raised in the chapter. This might be difficult so if there is even something remotely similar in the text go ahead and read up on that. When you have done this, please respond to the following questions.

What did your text have to say about the topics raised in this chapter? What information was provided in the text? What additional details did your text provide?

What did you think about this chapter? Why? What are three things you will remember from what you read in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you really liked that was in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you disliked that was in the chapter? Why? What do you now know about your brain that you didn't know before reading the chapter? Has this chapter made you think about other issues related to cognitive psychology? How does this chapter (if at all) relate to the material in the AoM chapters?

Please make sure you use the terms, terminology and concepts you have learned so far in the class. It should be apparent from reading your post that you are a college student well underway in a course in psychology.

Include a list of the terms and concepts you used in your post. (example - Terms: memory, cortex, visual system....)

Please use spaces between your paragraphs to make your post easier to read - thanks in advance

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #7 (Due Tuesday)

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Please read the chapter from your text on memory. Please find two topics from the chapter that are of interest to you and discuss what your text has to say on those topics. Next indicate two topics that you would like me to cover in more depth in class.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #5 (Due Tuesday)

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Please read the Landscape of His Dreams from AoM.

After reading the chapter, go to your textbook and see what it has to say about the topics raised in the chapter. This might be difficult so if there is even something remotely similar in the text go ahead and read up on that. When you have done this, please respond to the following questions.

What did your text have to say about the topics raised in this chapter? What information was provided in the text? What additional details did your text provide?

What did you think about this chapter? Why? What are three things you will remember from what you read in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you really liked that was in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you disliked that was in the chapter? Why? What do you now know about your brain that you didn't know before reading the chapter? Has this chapter made you think about other issues about the brain? How does this chapter relate to the material in the earlier chapters?

Please make sure you use the terms, terminology and concepts you have learned so far in the class. It should be apparent from reading your post that you are a college student well underway in a course in psychology.

Include a list of the terms and concepts you used in your post. (example - Terms: memory, cortex, visual system....)

Please use spaces between your paragraphs to make your post easier to read - thanks in advance

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #4 (Due Tuesday)

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Please read to See and Not See from AoM.

After reading the chapter, go to your textbook and see what it has to say about the topics raised in the chapter. This might be difficult so if there is even something remotely similar in the text go ahead and read up on that. When you have done this, please respond to the following questions.

What did your text have to say about the topics raised in this chapter? What information was provided in the text? What additional details did your text provide?
What did you think about this chapter? Why? What are three things you will remember from what you read in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you really liked that was in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you disliked that was in the chapter? Why? What do you now know about your brain that you didn't know before reading the chapter? Has this chapter made you think about other issues about the brain? How does this chapter relate to the material in the earlier chapters?

Please make sure you use the terms, terminology and concepts you have learned so far in the class. It should be apparent from reading your post that you are a college student well underway in a course in psychology.

Include a list of the terms and concepts you used in your post. (example - Terms: memory, cortex, visual system....)

Please use spaces between your paragraphs to make your post easier to read - thanks in advance

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Activity Week #3 (Due Sunday)

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Please read A Surgeon's Life from AoM.

After reading the chapter, go to your textbook and see what it has to say about the topics raised in the chapter. This might be difficult so if there is even something remotely similar in the text go ahead and read up on that. When you have done this, please respond to the following questions.

What did your text have to say the topics raised in this chapter? What information was provided in the text? What additional details did your text provide?
What did you think about this chapter? Why? What are three things you will remember from what you read in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you really liked that was in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you disliked that was in the chapter? Why? What do you now know about your brain that you didn't know before reading the chapter? Has this chapter made you think about other issues about the brain? How does this chapter relate to the material in the earlier chapters?

Please make sure you use the terms, terminology and concepts you have learned so far in the class. It should be apparent from reading your post that you are a college student well underway in a course in psychology.

Please use spaces between your paragraphs to make your post easier to read - thanks in advance

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Assignment Week #2 (Due Sunday)

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An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

You should by now have your two readers Anthropologist on Mars (AoM) and Memory Observed (MO). Please read the last hippie from AoM.

You should by now have ordered or received your cognitive text book. Please email me if this is not the case as you will have difficulty in completing the upcoming assignments.

After reading the last hippie, please respond to the following questions.

What did you think about this reading? Why? What are three things you will remember from what you read in the reading? Why? What was one thing that you really liked that was in the reading? Why? What was one thing that you disliked that was in the reading? Why? What do you now know about your brain that you didn't know before the reading? Has this reading made you think about other issues about the brain?

Reading Assignment Week #1 (Due before Tuesday)

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An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

You should by now have your two readers Anthropologist on Mars (AM) and Memory Observed (MO). Please read the case of the colorblind painter from AM.

After reading the chapter, please respond to the following questions.

Prior to reading this chapter, what did you think about cognition, color perception, and the brain's ability to adapt?  Why? What are three things you will remember from what you read in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you really liked that was in the chapter? Why? What was one thing that you disliked that was in the chapter? Why? How has reading the chapter changed what you originally thought about cognition, color perception, and the brain's ability to adapt? How so?