TA: Llewyn Paine
Office: SEA 5.118
Email:
Office hours: TTH 2:30-3:30 and by appointment
TA: Laura Marusich
Office: SEA 5.118
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Office hours: MF 12:00-1:00 and by appointment
Spring 2009 syllabus
Study questions (updated 04/28/09)
Radiolab
- Memory and Forgetting
Philosophical issues
Magic
Number
Seven (Miller)
Psychological
science
can improve diagnostic decisions
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(Acrobat 6 required) |
Imagination
Visual Functions of Mental
Imagery (selection from Finke & Shepard)
Neural Adaptation of
Imaginary
Visual Motion (Gilden)
Working Memory
Working Memory (Baddeley)
Baddeley Experiments
The Word-Length Effect and Disyllabic Words
(Lovatt)
The time-based word length effect and stimulus
set specificity (Neath et al.) (must be viewed in Acrobat)
A serial position effect in recall
of United States presidents (Roediger & Crowder)
What
is working memory and what is it good for? (Dr.
Gilden's faculty page)
Change
blindness demonstrations
Spatiotemporal characteristics of dynamic
feature
binding in visual working memory (Saiki)
Gilden
lab experiments
Long Term Memory
Creating false memories: Remembering words not
presented in lists (Roediger & McDermott)
Transformations of memory in everyday life (Linton)
Reconstruction of automobile deconstruction
(Loftus & Palmer)
An adult eidetiker (Stromeyer)
Toscanini's memory (Marek)
An exceptional memory (Hunter)
Unconscious perception: Attention, awareness,
and control (Jacoby)
The
death of implicit memory (Willingham & Preuss)
Experiments
from Lecture: 1 2
3
Reasoning and decision making
The hot hand in basketball: On the
misperception of random sequences (Gilovich, et al.)
Subjective probability (Falk)
Choices, values, and frames (Kahneman
& Tversky)
Understanding collision dynamics
(Gilden
& Proffitt)