Thursday December 8, 2026

Thursday/Friday December 8-9, 2026 Green-Gold

Check Homework 339-347

Homework for next class- SQ3R 350-363

Circle:  If you had to choose between a normal vacation with your family that you would remember or an amazing, out of this world experience vacation that you could not remember, which would you choose?

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.

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?