cognition
(back to lecture schedule)

Lecture   Homework   Resources   Readings 
learning   coloring the frontal lobe & hippocampus    
memory       Eyewitness Identification (Lithwick, Slate)
memory errors       too many choices! (Barry Schwarz, Swarthmore College)
concepts        
problem solving        
decision making      
why do goalies jump during penalties, if it is counterproductive? (see also NYTimes)
judgment heuristics        
infant cognition       why do babies smile? (Slate)
 early childhood - Piaget        
social cognition - theory of mind        

 

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