PPT-Chapter 7: Cognition and Language

Chapter 7 Cognition and Language What Is Cognitive Psychology Cognition includes the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating Our study of cognition will examine such things as concept learning problemsolving decision making and language. Cognition Questions. Do you have difficulty remembering or concentrating?. Split Interviews:. How often do you have difficulty remembering important things?. . Thinking about the last time you had difficulty remembering important things, how much difficulty did you have?. Chapter . 8: Language. Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology . (Kellogg). Fall . 2013. Mark Van Selst. San Jose State University. Cognition. Van Selst (Kellogg Chapter 8). Conceptual-Propositional Hypothesis. Queen prefers sons over grandsons . Worker prefers sons over brothers. Worker prefers brothers over nephews (if queen not monogamous). What does this predict?. Workers may have conflicts between themselves. EDU 330: Educational Psychology. Daniel . Moos, PhD. LEV VYGOTSKY. SOCIAL-HISTORICAL THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. “. Any higher mental function necessarily goes through an external stage in its development because it is initially a social function.. : . Thinking. Unit III Developmental Psychology. Introducing the “DESIGNATED UNIT…”. Marshmallow Challenge. What to . do:. Build the tallest freestanding structure:. the winning team is the one that has the tallest structure measured from the . Fredrik Stjernberg. IKK . Philosophy. Linköping University. fredrik.stjernberg@liu.se. First, the neurocomputational. approach. Churchland. & Sejnowski, ”Neural representation and neural computation”, . I. . Cognitive Psychology. : . DEF: The study of the mental processes by which information from the environment is modified, made meaningful, stored, retrieved, used, and communicated to others.. EX: I just saw my daughter graduate. Where do I put that information???. What does it mean to think? How does thinking work? . Do now. 1) What does the term cognition mean to you? What does it mean? What is involved with it? . 2) What types of things can effect our cognition? . Key Terminology. • . Phonology: (the way sounds function in the language) basic unit = . phoneme. single speech sound. English . has about 45; 9 make up half our words. dimensions. : voiced (“a”); unvoiced (“s”); fricatives (“. Figure 4.1 . The brain . Source. : . NatthapongSachan. / Shutterstock.com. Figure 4.2 . Planning for the study of children’s cognition. NOW YOU CAN BEGIN. Have you checked everything?. How would this knowledge improve your work with children?. Neil . DeGrass. Tyson on Human Intelligence. The Astonishing Hypothesis. “You, . your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated . C average to continue – if it is the final that drops your grade below we can talk . Tests bumped up to 30 ?s (with review questions from 1 unit). FRQs continue to add terms . Memory/Cognition . 8-10%. Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology . (Kellogg). Fall . 2013. Mark Van Selst. San Jose State University. Cognition. Van Selst (Kellogg Chapter 8). Conceptual-Propositional Hypothesis. (language-based evidence for propositions). Do you have difficulty remembering or concentrating?. Split Interviews:. How often do you have difficulty remembering important things?. . Thinking about the last time you had difficulty remembering important things, how much difficulty did you have?.