Please check this page often - by clicking on the Lesson titles you will see a brief description of the lesson and the titles of the individual modules. There you also get information about suggested demos, the readings for the lesson, and links to additional resources. You can use the module numbers as shortcuts to get to individual modules.

When the player brings up the window that presents a module, you will see links to the slides at the bottom of the player window (either one slide per page or three slides plus some space for notes next to it). You can easily view these and print them out via Acrobat Reader. The graphical quality of these slides is much higher than the player window.

I apologize for some of the modules being very long (some students might describe them as tedious ;-) Please feel free to pause modules at any point and take them up later.

The schedule is structured such that the first two weeks don't have a lot of assignments to get used to the instruction style and deal with the technical challenges that you might face. There is usually also quite a bit of dropping and adding of the course going on at that time. The pace will pick up starting in lesson 2 and the course will be fairly time demanding from then on out. Please also don't forget to pay close attention to the three deadlines for the main writing assignment that are posted within this schedule.

Quick Lecture Links: 01 | 02 | 03
Getting to know you: As your first little assignment, please upload a picture of yourself in web-ct (go to assignments, there you will find a "get-to-know-you" assignment button which will let you upload mat erial) and give me a brief description of what you are interested in as it pertains to cognitive psychology. Due Jan 20, 2008.

Quick Lecture Links: 04 | 05 | 06
Quiz 1 Due - Jan 27, 2008

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Quiz 2 Due - Feb 3, 2008

Quick Lecture Links: 09 | 10 | 11 | 12
Quiz 3 Due - Feb 10, 2008
Discussion topic 1: PERCEPTION - original contributions will have to be submitted by 02/06, reactions by 02/10

Quick Lecture Links: 13 | 14
No quiz this week - comprehensive attention quiz after next week

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Quiz 4 Due – Feb 24, 2008
Discussion topic 2: ATTENTION - original contributions will have to be submitted by 2/20, reactions by 2/24

Week 6 Exam 1 Available – Feb 23 through Feb 25, 2008

Attention: Exam 1 will be available through WEB-CT from Saturday at 12am until Monday at midnight. It will consist of a 20 question multiple choice section (time limit 30 minutes) and a short-answer section with 1 randomly selected short answer question (time limit is 30 min). The two parts of the exam can be taken independently - so you can do one first, and then the other a few hours or even a day later. The material will include the last lecture on attention. Please make sure that you have taken quiz 4 before the exam as some of those questions might reappear on the exam! Everything else is similar to the quizzes you have been taking. Click here to download a list of potential questions - this list is from last semester. Any changes to it will be made prior to one week before the exam goes online, but changes will probably not be significant and if you can answer these questions, you should do fine on the exam.

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Quiz 5 Due – Mar 2, 2008
DATE CHANGE: Discussion topic 3: WORKING MEMORY - original contributions will have to be submitted by 3/05, reactions by 3/09 (the old posted date was wrong - sorry about that)

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Quiz 6 Due – Mar 9, 2008

Spring Recess March 10 - 14

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Quiz 7 Due – Mar 23, 2008

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Quiz 8 Due – Mar 30, 2008

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Quiz 9 Due – Apr 6, 2008
NOW POSTED! Discussion topic 4: MEMORY & ORGANIZATION - original contributions will have to be submitted by 4/9, reactions by 4/13

Week 11 Exam 2 Available – April 5 through 7, 2008

Attention: Exam 2 will be available through WEB-CT from Saturday at 12am until Monday at midnight. Everything is like exam 1. It will consist of a 20 question multiple choice section (time limit 30 minutes) and a short-answer section with 1 randomly selected short answer question (time limit is 30 min). The two parts of the exam can be taken independently. The material will include the last lecture on the organization of knowledge and might contain a few questions from the first few lessons of the semester (it is more heavily weighted towards the new material). Please make sure that you have taken quiz 9 before the exam as some of those questions might reappear on the exam! Click here to download the list from last semester. I will handle it the same as described for exam 1.

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Quiz 11 Due – Apr 20, 2008
Discussion topic 5: LANGUAGE - original contributions will have to be submitted by 04/16, reactions by 04/20

Quick Lecture Links: 37 | 38 | 39
Quiz 12 Due – Apr 27, 2008

Final Version of Paper Due – 05/05/2008 <<changed date>>

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Quiz 13 Due – May 4, 2008
Discussion topic 6: JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING - original contributions will have to be submitted by Thursday 05/1, reactions by 05/04

Final Exam Available – May 3 through 5, 2008 --- THIS ONE HAS TO BE TAKEN BY EVERYONE!

Attention: Exam 3 will be available through WEB-CT until Monday, May 5th at midnight. Similarly to the other two exams, it will consist of a 30 question multiple choice section (time limit 30 minutes) and a short-answer section with 1 randomly selected question (time limit is 30 min). Unlike the other two exams, this one cannot be replaced by another exam. The final is comprehensive - however, the last part of the semester is going to be more heavily weighted than the first two (approx. 2:1). Please make sure that you have taken all of the quizzes and have thought about the sample short answer questions before you start the exam. Click here to download the questions from last semester.