Attention (PSY)
- Selective attention
- Divided attention
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Cognition (PSY)
- Information-processing model
- Cognitive development
- Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
- Cognitive changes in late adulthood
- Role of culture in cognitive development
- Influence of heredity and environment on cognitive development
- Biological factors that affect cognition (PSY, BIO)
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Types of problem-solving
- Barriers to effective problem-solving
- Approaches to problem-solving
- Heuristics and biases (e.g., overconfidence, belief perseverance)
- Intellectual functioning
- Theories of intelligence
- Influence of heredity and environment on intelligence
- Variations in intellectual ability
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- Ch. 1, pp. 16-17
- Ch. 2, pp. 70-75
- Ch. 4, pp. 119-162
- Ch. 5, pp. 168-172
- Ch. 8, pp. 268-269
- Ch. 9, pp. 315-332, 336-346
- Ch. 10, pp. 378-380
- Ch. 13, pp. 489-491
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Consciousness (PSY)
- States of consciousness
- Alertness (PSY, BIO)
- Sleep
- Stages of sleep
- Sleep cycles and changes to sleep cycles
- Sleep and circadian rhythms (PSY, BIO)
- Dreaming
- Sleep-wake disorders
- Consciousness-altering drugs
- Types of consciousness-altering drugs and their effects on the nervous system and behavior
- Drug addiction and the reward pathway in the brain
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- Ch. 1, Taking a New Look at a Familiar World, pp. 5-7 (“A sociology of sleep”)
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Memory (PSY)
- Encoding
- Process of encoding information
- Processes that aid in encoding memories
- Storage
- Types of memory storage (e.g., sensory, working, long-term)
- Semantic networks and spreading activation
- Retrieval
- Recall, recognition, and relearning
- Retrieval cues
- The role of emotion in retrieving memories (PSY, BIO)
- Processes that aid retrieval
- Forgetting
- Aging and memory
- Memory dysfunctions (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, Korsakoff’s syndrome)
- Decay
- Interference
- Memory construction and source monitoring
- Changes in synaptic connections underlie memory and learning (PSY, BIO)
- Neural plasticity
- Memory and learning
- Long-term potentiation
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- Ch. 2, pp. 39, 44, 64
- Ch. 4, pp. 152-154
- Ch. 6, pp. 193, 227
- Ch. 8, pp. 265-296
- Ch. 11, p. 401
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Language (PSY)
- Theories of language development (e.g., learning, Nativist, Interactionist)
- Influence of language on cognition
- Brain areas that control language and speech (PSY, BIO)
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- Ch. 3, Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge, pp. 50-53 (“Culture and language”)
- Ch. 5, Building Identity: Socialization, pp. 113-118 (“The acquisition of self”)
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