Tuesday January 20, 2026

Tuesday January 20, 2026

Circle: In a calamity, who do you think would be the calmest and most level headed?

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

Study Guide

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

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?

Tuesday December 6, 2026 Gold

Tuesday December 6, 2026

Did you remember?  Yellow Sticky Note...

New Seating Chart

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.

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?

Monday December 5, 2026

Monday December 5, 2026

Did you remember?  Yellow Sticky Note...

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.

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?

Wednesday December 17, 2025

Wednesday December 17, 2025

Circle: What is one thing you need to do or accomplish over the holiday break that if you get it done will make your life better?  How can you assure yourself you will get it done?  Accountibility....

Practice Note-Cards

Take Practice Quiz

Kahoot!

Study Plan

You can do this!

If you can rip thru the cards after the vacation will give you extra credit on the next assesssment.

Tuesday December 9, 2025

Tuesday December 9, 2025

Circle: How do you parents describe you as a toddler?  Were you easy or difficult?

Homework: 222-230

Vocabulary: Cards are due on Tuesday next week.  You must have an understandable definition, and where applicable make a connection to yourself.

Correct Absolute Threshold

How picky of an eater are you lab?

Touch-

Test on Friday- Sensation

Thursday(GREEN) Friday(GOLD) December 4+5, 2025

Circle: Are you a picky eater?  How do you think your parents would describe you when you were little?  Easy or difficult?

Introduce Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

Homework Due Next Class: SQ3R 222-230

Vocabulary List: We will be quizzing over these on Thursday.  You will be responsible for the first 14 words but you must also have an example about how it applies to you.  This is your self reference.  You can also get 3 points extra credit if you turn these into notecards that have the definition and a self reference included.

Study Guide for Sensation and Perception

Learning Targets: Understand the following-

What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?

Discuss how selective attention directs our attention.

Describe the three steps that are basic to all our sensory system.

What are the difference between absolute and difference thresholds.

Understand how we are affected by subliminal stimuli

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

Introductory Activity:
What is different this time? Man on a horse picture from text

(Bottom-up processing to Top-down processing)

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Basketball Experiment

(Because we only have Selective Attention the result is Inattentional Blindness.) Why?

WHO ARE YOU?

Video  Opponent Process
Video
Video Selective Attention
Video
Video Blind Spot
Video
Video High Frequency Test

Video Mosquito Test
Video 6 minute mark

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Vocabulary:

sensation

sensory receptors

perception

bottom-up processing

top-down processing

selective attention

inattentional blindness

change blindness

*Transduction

psychophysics

absolute threshold

signal detection theory

subliminal

difference threshold

priming

Weber's law

sensory adaptation