FUNDAMENTALS OF COGNITION
PSY 387R (43845
)
Spring 2007
SEA 2.108
Instructor
Dr. Randy Diehl
Office: SEA 4.312B
Phone: 475
-
7595
Office hours: 1
:30
-
2
:30
MW
January 17
I.
Historical
and
conceptual
background
of
cognitive
psychology
Watson, J.B. (19
13).
Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psych. Rev., 20,
158
-
177.
Miller, G.A. (1953).
What is information measurement?
The American
Psychologist,
8, 3
-
11.
Miller, G.A. (1956).
The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits
on our capacity for processing information. Psych. Rev., 63, 81
-
97.
Chomsky, N. (1959).
Review of
Verbal
behavior
. Language, 35, 26
-
58.
February 21
: First
Exam handed out; due February 23
.
February 23
II.
Visual
processing
and
pattern
recognit
i
on
F
arah, M.
(1995). Dissociable systems fo
r recognition: A cognitive
neuropsychological approach. In S.M. Kosslyn & D.N. Osherson (Eds.),
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Visual
cognition
,
Vol.
2
(101
-
120).
Biederman,
I. (1995).
Visual object re
c
ognition. In S.M. Kosslyn
& D.N.
Osherson (Eds.),
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Visual
cognition
,
Vol.
2
(121
-
166).
Spelke, E.S.,
Gutheil, G., Van de Walle, G. (1995).
The
development of object
perception. In S
.M. Kosslyn & D.N. Osherson
(Eds.)
,
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Visual
cognition
,
Vol.
2
(297
-
330). (Recommended).
March 5
III.
Imagery
Kosslyn, S.M.
(1995). Mental imagery. In S.M. Kosslyn &
D.N. Osherson (Eds.),
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Visual
cognition
,
Vol.
2
(267
-
296).
March 19
IV.
Attention
and
automaticity
Schneider, W., Dumais, S.T., & Shiffrin, R.M. (1984). Automatic and control
processing and attention. In R. Parasuraman, & D.R. Davies (Eds.),
Varieties
of
attention
(pp. 1
-
27). Orlando: Acade
mic.
Pashler, H. (1995).
Attention and visual perception:
Analyzing divided attention.
In S.M. Kosslyn & D.N. Osherson (Eds.),
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Visual
cognition
,
Vol.
2
(1
-
70).
2
March 23
V.
Memory
(short
-
term)
Jonides, J. (
1995). Working memory and thinking. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Thinking
,
Vol.
3
(215
-
265).
March 30
: Seco
nd Exam handed out; due April 2
.
April 2
VI.
Memory
(long
-
term)
Schacter, D.L. (1989). Memory. In M.
I. Posner (Ed.),
Foundations of
cognitive s
cience
(pp. 683
-
726). Cambridge, MA: MIT.
April 9
VII.
Categorization
Rosch, E. (1977). Classification of real
-
world objects: Origins and
representations in cognition. In P.N. Johnson
-
Laird & P.C.
Wason (Eds.),
Thinking:
Readings
in
cognitive
science
(pp. 212
-
222). Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press.
Medin, D.L.
, & Wattenmaker, W.D. (1987).
Category cohesiveness, theories and
cognitive archeology. In U. Neisser (Ed.),
Concepts
and
conce
ptual
development:
Ecological
and
intellectual
factors
in
categorization
(pp. 25
-
62). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Smith, E.E. (1995).
Concepts and categorization. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Thinking
,
Vol.
3
(3
-
34).
April 16
VIII.
Judgment
and
reasoning
Osherson, D.N. (1995). Probability judgment. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Thinking
,
Vol.
3
(35
-
76).
Shafir, E. & Tversky, A. (1995). Decision making. In
Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Thinking
,
Vol.
3
(77
-
100).
Holyoak, K.J. (1995). Problem solving. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Thinking
,
Vol.
3
(267
-
296).
Rips, L. (1995). Ded
uction and cognition. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An
invitation
to
cognitive
science:
Thinking
,
Vol.
3
(297
-
344).
Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selec
tion shaped
how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selecti
on task.
Cognition
,
31, 187
-
276.
Gigerenzer, G. (1991). How to make cognitive illusions disappear:
Beyond heuristics and biases.
European Review of Social Psychology
,
2
, 83
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115.
3
Apr
il 23
IX.
Artificial
intelligence
and
connectionism
Turing
, A.M. (1963).
Computing machinery and intelligence. In E. Feigenbaum
& J. Feldman (Eds.),
Computers
and
thought
(pp. 11
-
35). New York:
McGraw
-
Hill. (Originally published in
Mind
, 1950, 59, 433
-
460.)
Winograd, T. (1973). A procedural model of
language understanding. In R.
Schank & K. Colby (Eds.),
Computer
models
of
thought
and
language
(pp.
152
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186). San Francisco: Freeman.
Dreyfus, H.L. (1981). From micro
-
worlds to knowledge representation: AI at an
impasse. In J. Haugeland (E
d.),
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design:
Philosophy,
psychology,
artificial
intelligence
(pp. 161
-
204). Montgomery, VT: Bradford.
Artificial
intelligence
and
connectionism
(cont.)
Searle, J.R. (1981). Minds, brains, and programs. In J.Haugeland (Ed.),
Mind
design:
Philosophy,
psychology,
artificial
intelligence
(pp. 282
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306).
Montgomery, VT: Bradford.
McClelland, J.L., Rumelhart, D.E., Hinton, G.E. (1988). The appeal of parallel
distributed processing. In D.E. Rumelhart, J.L. McClelland, and the PDP
re
search group (Eds.),
Parallel
distributed
processing.
Explorations
in
the
microstructure
of
cognition,
Vol.
1:
Foundations
(pp. 3
-
44). Cambridge,
MA: MIT.
May 4
:
T
hird Exam handed out; due May 7
.
Textbooks:
Kosslyn, S.M. & Osherson, D.N. (Eds
.) (1995),
An invitation to cognitive
science: Visual cognition. Vol. 2.
Smith, E.E. & Osherson, D.N. (Eds.) (1995),
An invitation to cognitive science:
Thinking. Vol. 3.
Photocopies of all other readings
are
available at
University Duplicating, WEL
2.228,
471
-
1657.
Course grades will be determined by performance on the three exams, all equally
weighted.
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