Week Day

Date

Assignment

Lecture Topics

Slides & Podcast

Review
Questions

0-F

10/3

None

·    Intro/Overview

1  6   P

Reading&Zot

 

Lecture

1-M

10/6

·    Gleitman: Ch. 7, pp. 259-278

·    Zap #1: Classical Conditioning

·    (Optional) Reader: Watson & Rayner, pp. 117-128

·    Learning: study and testing

1  6   P

1-W

10/8

·    Gleitman: Ch. 7, pp. 278-289

·    Habituation

·    Classical Conditioning

1  6   P

1-F

10/10

·    Gleitman: Ch. 7, pp. 289-298

·    Instrumental Conditioning

·    Neural Mechanisms of Conditioning

1  6   P

2-M

10/13

·    None

·    Learning of regularities

1  6   P

2-W

10/15

Chapter Test: Learning

 

 

2-F

10/17

·    Gleitman: Ch. 8, pp. 301-313

·    Zap #2: Brown-Peterson Task

·    Zap #3: Memory Span

·    Zap #4: Serial Position

·    Brain structures and memory

·    Inferences from the case of HM

1  6   P

Reading&Zot

 

Lecture

3-M

10/20

·    Gleitman: Ch. 8, pp. 313-317

·    Zap #5: Lexical decision

·    Zap #6: Sentence verification

·    Types of Memory (Intro)

·    More Brain Areas and Memory

·    Storage of Semantic Memories

1  6   P

3-W

10/22

·    Gleitman: Ch. 8, pp. 317-327

·    Zap #7: Recalling Information

·    Zap #8: Memory Bias

·    Transience (Forgetting)

·    Ebbinghaus

·    For “Flashbulb Memories”

·    Aging

1  6   P

3-F

10/24

·    Gleitman: Ch. 8, pp. 327-337

·    Zap #9: False Memory Task

·    Emotion Signals Importance

·    Blocking

·    Binding Errors

1  6   P

4-M

10/27

·    Reader: Schacter, pp. 165-176

·    Zap #10: Implicit Learning

·    View or read a 60 Minutes story on Eye Witness Testimony

·    View NY Times video The Trial That Unleashed Hysteria Over Child Abuse

·    Misattribution

·    Suggestibility

·    Eye witness testimony

1  6   P

4-W

10/29

Chapter Test: Memory

 

 

 

4-F

10/31

·    Gleitman: Ch. 9, pp. 341-348

·    Zap #11: Mental Scanning

·    Zap #12: Mental Rotation 2-D

·    Representations

1  6   P

Reading&Zot

 

Lecture

5-M

11/3

·    Gleitman: Ch. 9, pp. 348-354

·    Dual-Process Theory

1  6   P

5-W

11/5

·    Gleitman: Ch. 9, pp. 354-358

·    Zap #13: Wason Selection Task

·    Stroke: A window onto hemispheric asymmetry and brain states

1  6   P

5-F

11/7

·    Gleitman: Ch. 9, pp. 358-364

·    Zap #14: Decision making

·    Interplay between Emotion and Cognition

1  6   P

6-M

11/10

·    Gleitman: Ch. 9, pp. 365-375

·    Zap #15: Gestalt Problem Solving

·    Zap #16: Missionaries & Cannibals

·    More on Hemispheric Asymmetry: Split Brain

·    Expertise and intuition

1  6   P

6-W

11/12

Chapter Test: Thinking

 

 

 

6-F

11/14

·    None

·    No Class

Reading&Zot
(REVISED)

 

Lecture

7-M

11/17

·    Gleitman: Ch. 10, pp. 379-385

·    Reader: Baker, pp. 108-114

·    Zap #17: Feature Net

·    Features of and Structure in Language

1  6   P

7-W

11/19

·    Gleitman: Ch. 10, pp. 385- 396

·    Language acquisition: Learning, Innate Knowledge, Imitation, Analogy

1  6   P

7-F

11/21

·    Gleitman: Ch. 10, pp. 396 – 408

·    Reader: Pinker, pp. 97-107

·    Language Acquisition: Word  Learning, Complexity, Universal Grammar

1  6   P

8-M

11/24

·    Gleitman: Ch. 10, pp. 408 – 421

·    Language and the Brain

·    Language vs. Speech: Babbling

·    Language in other Animals

1  6   P

8-W

11/26

Chapter Test: Language

 

 

8-F

11/28

Thanksgiving Holiday

 

Reading

 

Lecture

9-M

12/1

·    Gleitman: Ch. 14, pp. 545 – 562

·    Reader: Gopnik at al., pp. 146-153

·    Piaget's legacy

·    Number learning

1  6   P

9-W

12/3

·    Gleitman: Ch. 14, pp. 562 – 576

·    Attachment

·    Correlations in socialization research

1  6   P

9-F

12/5

·    Gleitman: Ch. 14, pp. 576 – 582

·    Reader: Harris, pp. 291 - 303

·    Parents, Peers, & Culture

1  6   P

10-M

12/8

·    Gleitman: Ch. 14, pp. 582 – 588

·    Brain development and plasticity

1  6   P

10-W

12/10

Chapter Test: Development

 

 

 

10-F

12/12

None

·    Exam and Course overview

1  6   P

None

Mon.

12/15

Final Exam: 8:00 – 10:00