Agenda: Week of Monday, March 5 - Friday, March 9, 2012

Learning Targets for Chapters 7 & 8 "Cognition"

1. Cognition is the study of mental processes.

2. STM seems to be limited to 7+ - 2 items at any given time.

3. The differences between encoding, storage, and retrieval are important.

4. Models of LTM deal with how we organize information that we need to know.

5. Problem solving involves applying what we know in an organized way to issues that we face.

6. Language is a complex system of communication that allows us to use complex symbols to talk about things in the past or future, not just the present.

Stata Center, MIT

Monday, March 5, 2012

Quote: "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace." - Ulysses S. Grant 
Agenda:
1. DO NOW ?: Why do humans swear & curse?
2. CH 8 Notes - Focus on Language Acquisition
3. Psyktrek 3 CD if time permits.

Public Library Kansas City, Missouri

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Quote: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  - Dwight D. Eisenhower 

Agenda:

1. DO NOW ?: How does cognition work? Does cognition function differently in humans compared to animals?
2. CH 8 Notes - Focus on Language Acquisition
3. Psyktrek 3 CD if time permits.

Thursday, March 7 and 8, 2012
Quote: "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."  - John F. Kennedy 
Agenda:
1. DO NOW ?: How does cognition work? Does cognition function differently in humans compared to animals?
2. CH 8 Notes - Focus on Language Acquisition
3. Psyktrek 3 CD if time permits.

Friday, March 9, 2012
Quote: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill, English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)  
Agenda:
1. TEST Chapter 7 & 8
2. After the test - pick up Article on Chapter 9.