Thursday, January 31, 2019

January 21, 2019

Thursday January 31, 2019

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Activity: Your first impression of me, Mr. Toohey, the first time you met me.  Then talk about all the factors that led you to that impression.

Please bring your psychology book to class today.

Circle:  A first impression you were totally wrong about.  Usually a person.

Unit: Cognition

Activity: Problem Solving  

Activity: Solving puzzles

Activity: Confirmation bias

Activity: Demonstrating Mental Set

Crash Course Cognition

Activity: 
1.At your table share your definition of concept, and explain why it is so useful.
2.At your table share your definition of algorithms and heuristics and why they are useful.
3.At your table analyze how fixation, confirmation bias, heuristics, overconfidence, framing and belief perseverance influence our ability to solve problems.

Homework: Finish SQ3R'ing Unit 7b.  Bring your notes and to class on Monday.

Vocabulary:
  • Cognition
  • Algorithm
  • Heuristic
  • Confirmation bias
  • Mental set
  • Functional fixedness
  • Availability heuristic
  • Phoneme
  • Morpheme
  • Telegraphic speech



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