January 16, 2025

January 16, 2025

Definition of Intelligence:  Look it up.

Definition of Wisdom: Look it up.

What is the difference between wisdom and intelligence?

Circle: Who is the smartest person you know?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there my be other words in the units you should know.  Learning Targets  and Vocabulary

Activity: Look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best 

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Problem Solving

January 15, 2025

January 15, 2025

Circle: Something you wish was true?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there my be other words in the units you should know.  Learning Targets  and Vocabulary

Activity: True or False

Activity: Tower of Hanoi

Activity: Sirracha Sauce

Activity: Bat and Ball

Activity: Look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best 

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Problem Solving

January 13, 2024

Monday January 13, 2024

Homework Quiz

Homework: 365-379

Circle: 1.What suggestions do you have for me that would help you to understand the material?  What improvements do you think you need to make?  2. Beach or lake?

Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval.

Module 31

Activity: Can you answer these questions?

1. What is memory and how is it measured?

2. How do psychologists describe the human memory system?

3. How do explicit and implicit memories differ?

4. What information do we process automatically?

5. How does sensory memory work?

6. What is our short-term and working memory capacity?

Module 32

1. What is the capacity of long-term memory?  Are our long-term memories processed and stored in specific locations?

2. What roles do the frontal lobes and hippocampus play in memory processing?

3. What roles do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play in memory processing?

4. How do emotions affect our memory processing?

5. How do changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing?

6. How do external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval?

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Module 33

1. Explain why we forget.

2. Discuss how misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia influence our memory construction, and describe how we decide whether a memory is real or false.

3. Analyze why reports of repressed and recovered memories have been so hotly debated.

4. Describe the reliability of young children's eyewitness descriptions.

5. Discuss how you can use memory research findings to do better in this and other courses.

Activity: How good is your memory? You will be testing your memory using something that you think you know very well.  How good is you memory and what could you do to improve it?  Blank Home Screen, Default Screen, List your app library in order.

Memory Hackers

Thursday January 9, 2025

Circle: If you had to get rid of all but three apps on your phone which would you keep?

Activity: Lets see how well you put your information in LTM.  You will get this again on Monday.  Maybe for a quiz?

Activity: True or False- Was it in your LTM?

Activity: Memory Hackers- Pre questions

Activity: Answer the questions in your group

Memory Hackers

Module 32 Slide Show

January 6, 2025

Monday January 6, 2025

New seating chart: Activity-come up with a place you have all visited outside of Maine.

Circle: What is your earliest childhood memory(and not one from a photo)

Activity: Hand out guided notes from homework to see how well information was put into LTM

Cognition- how knowledge is acquired, stored and used.  These processes include thinking, perception, memory, problem-solving, language, decision-making, and attention. Essentially, cognition encompasses all aspects of conscious and unconscious mental activity that enable us to understand and interact with the world around us.

Key Examples of Cognitive Processes:

Perception: Interpreting sensory information to make sense of the environment.

Memory: Storing and retrieving information over time.

Language: Understanding and producing spoken or written communication.

Problem-Solving: Finding solutions to challenges or obstacles.

Attention: Focusing mental resources on specific stimuli or tasks.

Decision-Making: Evaluating options and making choices.

Memory Slides

Cognition: Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

Homework: 325-336 and then 339-362.

Activity: Do you remember the story?

Activity: From Behaviorism to Cognition

Student Activity: M31: Fact or Falsehood?

Student Activity: M31: Remembering the Seven Dwarfs 

Student Activity: M31: Memory Capacity-  7(+/-2)

Student Activity: M31: Meaningful Chunks- Phone numbers

Student Activity: M31: Method of Loci- Shopping list

Student Activity: M31: Meaning and Memory- Flying a kite

Student Activity: M31: Semantic Encoding of Pictures- Two pictures

Student Activity: M31: The Self-Reference Effect 

What if you could get ride of it?

Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Cognition
• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference

Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture?

Module 32 Slide Show

January 2, 2025

Thursday January 2, 2025

Circle:  An embarrassing memory that you can laugh at now? Circle:  If you could get rid of painful memories, would you? Circle: What is your earliest childhood memory(and not one from a photo)

Cognition- how knowledge is acquired, stored and used.  These processes include thinking, perception, memory, problem-solving, language, decision-making, and attention. Essentially, cognition encompasses all aspects of conscious and unconscious mental activity that enable us to understand and interact with the world around us.

Key Examples of Cognitive Processes:

Perception: Interpreting sensory information to make sense of the environment.

Memory: Storing and retrieving information over time.

Language: Understanding and producing spoken or written communication.

Problem-Solving: Finding solutions to challenges or obstacles.

Attention: Focusing mental resources on specific stimuli or tasks.

Decision-Making: Evaluating options and making choices.

Memory Slides

Cognition: Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

Homework: 325-336 and then 339-362.

Activity: Revisit the Hand

Circle: If you could erase the worst memory of your life, would you?

Activity: Do you remember the story?

Activity: From Behaviorism to Cognition

Student Activity: M31: Fact or Falsehood?

Student Activity: M31: Remembering the Seven Dwarfs 

Student Activity: M31: Memory Capacity

Student Activity: M31: Meaningful Chunks

Student Activity: M31: Method of Loci

Student Activity: M31: Meaning and Memory

Student Activity: M31: Semantic Encoding of Pictures 

Student Activity: M31: The Self-Reference Effect 

What if you could get ride of it?

Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Cognition
• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture?

December 19, 2024

Thursday December 19, 2024

Circle: The best gift you ever gave?

Review for Exam

Sensation Test

Memories...

Homework for the break: SQ3R pages 326-349

Have a great break!!!