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