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Introduction to Psychology
Unit 4: Cognition
Motivation & Emotion

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8-9% Cognition
  • Memory
  • Language
  • Thinking and problem solving
  • Intelligence and creativity
    7-8% Motivation and Emotion
  • Biological bases
  • Theories of motivation
  • Theories of emotion
  • Hunger, thirst, sex, pain
  • Social motivation
  • Video
    Language Development from Discovering Psychology
    The development of language has many facets to explore. This program looks at how developmental psychologists investigate the human mind, society, and culture by studying children’s use of language in social communication. With Dr. Jean Berko-Gleason of Boston University and Dr. Ann Fernald of Stanford University. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Remembering and Forgetting from Discovering Psychology
    This program looks at the complex process called memory: how images, ideas, language, and even physical actions, sounds, and smells are translated into codes, represented in the memory and retrieved when needed. With Dr. Richard Thompson of the University of Southern California and Dr. Diana Woodruff-Pak of Temple University. Updated. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Judgement and Decision Making from Discovering Psychology
    Exceedingly complex processes are involved in the making of judgements and decisions. This program examines how and why people make good and bad judgements, and the psychology of taking risks. With Dr. Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University and the late Dr. Irving Janis of Yale University. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Motivation and Emotion from Discovering Psychology
    This program reviews what researchers are discovering about why we act and feel as we do, from the exhilaration of love to the agony of failure. With Dr. Norman Adler of Yeshiva University and Dr. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Text

    Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns : Boeree

    Motivation and Emotion : Boeree

    Cognitive Psychology : Sparknotes

    Perception : Sparknotes

    Memory : Sparknotes

    Memory: How Do We Remember What We Know? : CIA

    Language : Sparknotes

    Unit IV - TheCognitive Perspective : SIU
    Chapter 9 Thinking and Reasoning
    Chapter 10 Memory
    Chapter 11 Evaluating the Cognitive Perspective

    Lectures

    Lecture 6 Motivation : Kean
    Feedback Systems
    Peripheral Nervous System
    Hunger
    Obesity
    Problems of Underweight

    Development : Kean

    Memory

    Jean Piaget: Kean

    Concepts of Development

    Jean Piaget : Kean

    Concrete Operational Period
    Formal Operational Period

    Structure of Languiage : Kean

    Principles of Language Structure

    Language Acquisition : Kean

    Language Acquisition : Kean

    Memory : Redwoods

    Thinking and Language : Redwoods

    Intelligence : Redwoods

    Motivation : Redwoods

    Emotions : Redwoods

    Piaget & Alzheimer's :Pritchard

    Lecture Notes for Week 11 (Chapter 11) : Cannon

    Emotion

    Quiz

    Ace Practice Tests: Bernstein Click on Chapter 6: Memory

    Ace Practice Tests: Bernstein Click on Chapter 7: Thought, Language, and Intelligence

    Ace Practice Tests: Bernstein Click on Chapter 8 Motivation and Emotion

    Cognitive Psychology Review : Sparknotes

    Library

    427.973 HASK James Haskins, Hugh F. Butts. The psychology of Black language

    701 ARNH Rudolf Arnheim Art and visual perception: a psychology of the creative eye

    370 EGAN Kieran Egan. The educated mind : how cognitive tools shape our understanding

    370.15 SILB Mel Silberman. Active learning : 101 strategies to teach any subject

    Resources

    Ameoba Web Click on Cognitive Psychology

    Ameoba Web Click on Language

    Ameoba Web Click on Memory Statistics and Testing

    Ameoba Web Click on Emotion and Motivation


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