TA: Judith Easton
Office: SEA 3.324B
Email: jeaston1@mail.utexas.edu
Office hours: T/W/Th 1:00-2:00 and by appointment
Syllabus
Study questions
Specific Reading Assignments
For week of 11/10/2008
Folk Physics of Apes Chapter
For week of 10/13/2008
Universal Scaling Laws in Biology
Metabolic Rate and Body Size
For week of 10/6/2008
Working Memory (Baddeley)
Serial Position effect in recall of US Presidents
For week of 9/22/2008:
Choosing worms
When to give up
Gamble when desperate
Timing in animals
For Monday 9/15/2008:
What is the purpose of sleep?
An evolutionary approach to sleep
Jellyfish and sleep
Mammalian sleep
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)