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Unit 5:  Cognitive Psychology

This section of the course introduces students to differences between learned and unlearned behavior . The primary focus is how humans convert sensory input into kinds of information . They examine how humans remember, and retrieve information . This part of the course also addresses problem solving, language, and creativity .  An understanding of intelligence and assessment of individual differences is also highlighted in this portion of the course . Students must understand issues related to test construction and fair use .​
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Memory

Objectives:
• Compare and contrast various cognitive processes:
— effortful versus automatic processing; — deep versus shallow processing;
— focused versus divided attention .
• Describe and differentiate psychological and physiological systems of memory (e .g ., short-term memory, procedural memory) .
• Outline the principles that underlie effective encoding, storage, and construction of memories .
• Describe strategies for memory improvement .

Resources
Remembering and Forgetting -DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY
How We Make Memories - Crash Course Psychology #13
Remembering and Forgetting - Crash Course Psychology #14
​Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You - Crash Course Psychology #15


Language & Thought

Objectives:
 •Synthesize how biological, cognitive, and cultural factors converge to facilitate acquisition, development, and use of language .
• Identify problem-solving strategies as well as factors that influence their ef fectiveness .
• List the characteristics of creative thought and creative thinkers .
• Identify key contributors in cognitive psychology (e .g ., Noam Chomsky, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Wolfgang Köhler, Elizabeth Loftus, George A . Miller) .

Resources
Language Development - DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY
Cognitive Processes- DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY
Language: Crash Course Psychology #16

Testing & Individual Differences

Objectives:
• Define intelligence and list characteristics of how psychologists measure intelligence:
— abstract versus verbal measures;
— speed of processing .
• Discuss how culture influences the definition of intelligence .
• Compare and contrast historic and contemporary theories of intelligence (e .g ., Charles Spearman, Howard Gardner, Robert Sternberg) .
• Explain how psychologists design tests, including standardization strategies and other techniques to establish reliability and validity .
• Interpret the meaning of scores in terms of the normal curve .
• Describe relevant labels related to intelligence testing (e .g ., gifted, cognitively disabled) .
• Debate the appropriate testing practices, particularly in relation to culture-fair test uses .
• Identify key contributors in intelligence research and testing (e .g ., Alfred Binet, Francis Galton, Howard Gardner, Charles Spearman, Robert Sternberg, Louis Terman, David Wechsler) .

Resources
Testing and Intelligence- DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY
Controversy of Intelligence: Crash Course Psychology #23
Brains Vs. Bias: Crash Course Psychology #24
Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire
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