http://www.cindy.sifonis.com/Classes/Cog316/CogPage.html en-us Cindy Sifonis Cindy Sifonis sifonis@oakland.edu Psychology 316: Cognitive Psychology Psychology 316: Cognitive Psychology no Cold Fusion Custom Process Cindy Sifonis Second Life lecture on Conceptual Expansion. Focuses on the manner in which we generate new ideas by expanding on our conceptual knowledge. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Expansion.mp4 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Compare various pattern recognition theories including template theories, distinctive feature theories, recognition by components theory and the interactive activation theories. This discussion also included the distinction between top-down and bottom-up processing. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/PatternTheories.mp3 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Conclusion of the discussion about how context and expectations affect pattern recognition. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Analog.mp3 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Biederman experiment demonstrating how context facilitates pattern recognition http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Pattern3.mp3 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Explained how the study of optical illusions and other errors can provide insight into cognition. Began discussion on cognitive constraints on cognition such as expectations, context, and experience. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Pattern2.mp3 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Introduction to the complexities of pattern recognition and pattern recognition theories of the Gestalt Psychologists such as figure/ground relationships and the laws of grouping. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Pattern1.mp3 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Continued discussion of schemas: Includes types of schemas,schema contents (inventory and relational information, slots, fillers) and how schemas provide expectations for what you will encounter and how to behave. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Analog.mp3 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Introduction to the concept of schemas: what they are and how they are acquired. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Schemas1.mp3 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Conclusion of the parallel distributed models of cognition lecture: distinctions between spontaneous generalization and default assignment, implications of their ability to form inferences and generalize http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/PDP4.mp3 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussion of the system attributes of parallel distributed processing models such as being content addressable, allowing default assignment and spontaneous generalization. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/PDP3.mp3 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Continued discussion of PDP model components including levels of activation across the network, thresholds. Introduces the attributes of PDP models such as pattern of connections, learning algorithms, and encoding schemes. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/PDP2.mp3 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing Models of Cognition: what they are, components such as nodes and links and weights http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/PDP1.mp3 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses the issues examined by cognitive psychologists and the history of cognitive psychology. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/HistoryOfCognitive_13.mp3 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussing second half of Winter 2013 syllabus. Includes discussion of the Second Life class component, technologies and other class tools. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Syllabus2.mp3 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Explanation of the Winter 2013 syllabus. Includes expectations, goals, assignments. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Syllabus1.mp3 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses a type of fixation resulting from experiencing examples prior to an idea generation task. Goes into depth discussing the Smith, Ward, & Schumacher (1998) experiment examining the conformity effect. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/ConformityEffect.mp4 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Review of the assumptions underlying the cognitive view, effects of semantic knowledge on creativity including correlated attributes typicality effects and the path of least resistance, effects of episodic memory in terms of conformity to examples viewed prior to a creativity generation task, analogy and creativity including the components of analogical thinking and the effect of conceptual distance on the creativity of solutions, the Geneplore model http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/CogView.mp3 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Ability to form remote associations and testing for that ability via the Remote Associates Task, description of Remote Associates Task, evaluating romantic view of creativity, description and the assumptions of the Cognitive View of creativity http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/DivergentThinking.mp3 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Assumptions of the Romantic view of creativity, creativity problem solving processes, divergent thinking and divergent production tasks, and how divergent thinking tasks are coded. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/RomanticView.mp3 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Creativity as problem solving, creativity definition, psychological versus historical creativity, the Romantic approach to creativity http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Creativity.mp3 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Hill climbing heuristic and problem of local maxima, means-ends heuristic and potential problems with using means-ends heuristic, working backwards, analogy with discussion of analogy research, the factors affecting retrieval of isomorphic problems, the formation of problem solving schemas for isomorphic problems, types of fixation http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/ProblemHeuristics.mp3 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Problems of arrangement and useful skills, problems of inducing structure, problems of transformation, insight problems, their characteristics and the debate about the cognitive processes underlying insight problem solving http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/ProblemTypes.mp3 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Terminology, algorithms versus heuristics, well-defined versus ill-defined problems, computer science (AI) contributions to knowledge of human problem solving http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/ProblemSolvingTerms.mp3 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Effects of premise diversity and expertise on inductive reasoning, reasoning with non-blank properties http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/InductiveModel.mp3 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Category based inductive reasoning, inferences about blank properties, similarity-coverage model, premise-conclusion similarity effects, typicality effects http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Inductive.mp3 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Review of antecedents and consequents as well as affirming and denying, fallacies, modus ponens, modus tollens, practice distinguishing fallacies from valid inferences, factors making reasoning more difficult such as negatives, abstraction, believability effects, Wason Selection Task confirmation bias, content effects http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Propositional.mp3 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Components of propositional reasoning, affirming and denying antecedents and consequents http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Reasoning_components.mp3 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Overconfidence effect http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Overconfidence.mp3 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Factors affecting availability including familiarity and how media contributes to familiarity. Other things affecting decision making including the framing effect, sunk cost effect, causal scenarios http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Availability2.mp3 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Definition of representativeness, errors associate with use of heuristics including random looking outcomes, ignoring sample size, gamblers fallacy, ignoring base rate, conjunction fallacy Definition of availability heuristic, source of errors when using availability heuristic http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Representativeness.mp3 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Expected value, expected utility, subjective expected utility http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/DecisionModels2.mp3 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Overview, normative versus descriptive versus prescriptive models, compensatory versus noncompensatory models, additive model, additive-difference model, elimination by aspects, conjunctive model and satisficing search, Payne (1976) http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/DecisionModels.mp3 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Introduction to decision making, stages in decision making http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/DecisionStages.mp3 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussion of cognitive map heuristics such as rotation heuristics, relative position and semantic knowledge. Followed by discussion of visual memory and the Lutz and Lutz advertising memory. Finishes up with discussion of the mnemonic techniques of the keyword method and method of loci. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/MapHeuristics.mp3 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Thorndike experiment and results, distortions of cognitive maps such as the right angle bias http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Distortions.mp3 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussion of analog representations, evidence against analog representations, propositional representations, dual code hypotheses including Kosslyns theory http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Analog.mp3 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Functional equivalence hypothesis as tested by the following: mental rotation task paradigms as results,map scanning paradigm and result, imagining animals (rabbit, elephant, fly) paradigm and results, Pavio angle size comparison paradigm and results http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Imagery.mp3 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Thorndike and latent learning, cognitive maps, road-route survey and landmark knowledge http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Latent.mp3 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Characteristics of communication systems such as structural biological and pragmatic properties, whale songs, dolphin communication, ape language studies using cross-fostering, Vicki, Washoe and sign language, criticisms of studies, second generation studies, Lana, Kanzi http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Animal.mp3 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Separation between syntax and semantics, Broca and Wernicki areas, phrase structure grammars and rules, tree diagram, resolving ambiguity, phoneme restoration effect and experiments, factors affecting comprehension, negatives and passive voice, pragmatics, indirect speech acts, Gricean maxims http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Semantics.mp3 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Definition of language, characteristics of language, syntax http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Language.mp3 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Category hierarchy, basic level category, perceived world structure, cognitive economy, paradigms to investigate processing advantages of the basic level, expertise and basic level, naming, similarity and similarity based category membership, ad hoc categories, script-based categories, membership in multiple categories http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Basic.mp3 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Cognitive uses/benefits of having categories, classical view of category membership, defining features, deterministic categories, graded category membership, characteristic features, family resemblance views of category membership, exemplar view, probabilistic view http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Categories.mp3 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Bartlett, schemas and eyewitness testimony, misinformation effect, false memory debate http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/misinformation.mp3 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis constructivist approach, pragmatic approach http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/reconstructive.mp3 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Frames/slots/filler, types of schemas, comprehension, memory (unedited for quick posting) http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/schemas.mp3 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis implicit memory tests, Jacoby process dissociation task http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/tests.mp3 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Distinctions between implicit and explicit memories http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/distinctions.mp3 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:30:03 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses various experiments examining whether we can encode and retrieve information experienced while under anesthesia. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/anesthetic.mp3 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Content and functional distinctions, episodic vs semantic, flashbulb memories, procedural vs declarative, implicit vs explicit, savings in relearning http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/multipleMem.mp3 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Transfer appropriate processing, proactive and retroactive interference, what makes a good retrieval cue, encoding specificity, paired associates tasks, context effects, mood dependent memory, state dependent memory, spacing effect http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/transfer.mp3 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Explaining sensory store/STM/LTM with LOP,decay rates and depending on code and processing, incidental learning paradigm, elaboration, types of distinctiveness, problems with LOP http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/LOP.mp3 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis primacy effect, maintenance rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal, encoding processes http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/serial2.mp3 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Recency effect http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/serial1.mp3 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Overview of long term memory, using free recall task to study the movement of information from STM to LTM http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/LTM1.mp3 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Memory span tasks, absolute judgment tasks, chunking, brown-peterson task, decay versus interference, coding in STM, working memory http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/STM.mp3 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Sensory store - capacity, duration code, backwards masking http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/sensory.mp3 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Bottleneck theories including Broadbent's Filter Model, Treisman's Attenuator Model and the Deutsch-Norman Late Selection Model. Capacity theories including Kahneman's capacity model and the multimode theory. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/attention_theories.mp3 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Automatic process, theories of automatization, practice and the negative acceleration curve. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/automatic.mp3 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Divided attention tasks, change blindness, inattentional blindness, capacity, automaticity and practice http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/divided.mp3 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Vigilance, things that affect performance in vigilance tasks, search tasks and things that affect performance in search tasks. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/vigilance.mp3 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Selective attention, dichotic listening task with and without shadowing,characteristics of unattended message. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/attention1.mp3 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Introduction to the backwards messages demo involving the website jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm and how it is explained by interactive activation http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/BackMaskDemo.mp3 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Describes the distinction between bottom-up and top-down pattern recognition models, the Word Superiority effect and how the interactive activation model used bottom-up and top-down components to explain the word superiority effect. Discussion of how interactive activation can explain hearing messages when songs are played backwards. http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Interactive.mp3 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discussed Template Models, Distinctive Feature Models and Configural Models of pattern recognition http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/PatternModels.mp3 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses the complexities of pattern recognition, the contributions of Gestalt Psychology to pattern recognition, the influence of experience, context and expectation http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/Pattern.mp3 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT Cindy Sifonis Discusses the issues examined by cognitive psychologists, the history of cognitive psychology, affiliated disciplines such as Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, and brain imaging techniques http://www2.oakland.edu/psych/podcastfiles/psy316/History.mp3 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:30:04 GMT