PSYC 105: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~dhuber/psyc105.html
Section ID: 771788 MWF 3:00-3:50 Center Hall 101
Professor: David Huber Office Hours: Wed. 10-12 McGill 5137
TA: Bernhard Angele Office Hours: Thur. 1-3 Mandeville Coffee Cart
Undergraduate TA: Seerat Jammu Office Hours: Fri. 1-3 Mandler B590
Course Description (4 credits):
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of cognitive psychology. The course surveys areas such as perception, attention, memory, and language.
Textbook: Matlin, M. W. (2013). Cognition (8th ed.). Wiley.
$105.50 new (UCSD), $86.95 unbound (Wiley), or $59.50 e-text (Wiley)
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-815928.html
Student companion site for the textbook (including practice quizzes!!)
Lecture
Notes and Links
o Optical
Character Recognition with Neural Networks
o Center-surround
receptive fields for color
o An illusion combining several aspects
of vision
o Hubel and Wiesel’s discovery
of simple cells
o Reading words
with jumbled letters
o An example of an Interactive
Activation neural network
o Change blindness and inattentional blindness videos
o Flicker
paradigm for studying change blindness
o Patch-light display for
walking
o Patch-light
displays for other kinds of motion
o Face inversion effect
(‘Margaret Thatcher Illusion’)
o McGurk
effect (vision affects audition)
o Illusory
flash effect (audition affects vision)
o Psychological Refractory
Period
o Siegel,
Dougherty, & Huber (2012)
·
Chapter 5 (Long-term
Memory)
o If familiarity is compared
to a criterion, bias and memory can be separated
o Amnesia
·
Chapter 6 (Mnemonics / Metamemory)
·
Chapter 7 (Imagery and
Maps)