Cognitive Psychology

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Two Questions

Problem

Method

Results
        Looking at Figures again

Do next Coglab Data collection by Friday AM so I can prepare for Monday.  Sorry!

I.                   Baars’s Global Workspace theory

1.                 What is consciousness according to this theory? How does something become conscious?

2.                 What is unconsciousness?

3.                 What is the function of consciousness?

4.                 What are contexts?

5.                 What is going on at any giving time in our head according to this theory?

II.                Discussion/Debate Questions

A.   Is consciousness important?

B.    Should we study consciousness?  Or can psychology study consciousness?

III.      History of Memory Research

A.    Some Classic Studies

1.      Serial Position Effect; Data

   2.    Release from PI; Data

B.      Ebbinghaus and William James

1.   Ebbinghaus and his early studies

2.   James and his theorizing

                                                           a.      First to develop concepts of multiple memory systems

                                                          b.      Introduces terms of primary and secondary systems (Now called STM and LTM, respectively)

C.      Memory Stages

D.      Types of LTM

E.      Levels of Processing

F.      Connectionism

G.      How Many memories? – I might hold this until after all the memory chapters have been covered!