Cog Ch 1: What is Cognition?
August 30, 2007
Hello Cognition Scholars. Welcome to our first collaborative effort. This Assignment will have a great deal of options for you due to the wide-open introductory nature of Chapter1, Cognitive Psychology: History, Methods, and Paradigms.
I would like for you to share interesting links relevant to chapter 1. You will get credit according to the following rubric:
• 20% = Include your name and a brief title of your topics as your first line in the comment box.
• 80% = (40% for each bookmark) Share a site title and URL. Review the site and tell us why it is relevant to our class and this chapter in particular. List the del.icio.us tags you used when bookmarking the site and tell us why you selected those particular tags. (introspection????)
Below I am making available a rough template that you can copy and paste into the main comment box until you pick up a few HTML skills:
Paste in the URL of site 1 here. Don’t worry about the html.
Place review of site 1 here:
Place tags for site 1 here:
Place rational of tags for site 1 here:
paste in the URL of site 2 here.
Place review of site 2 here:
Place tags for site 2 here:
Place rational of tags for site 2 here:
Feel free to comment on what your classmates share. This can be as dynamic as you want it to be.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unsure-cognition
tags: cog
This site is an astoundingly astute conglomeration of cutting edge ghetto jargon and street-smarts. Although the link I share is somewhat reminiscent of cognition, it truly has no other value than comedic. Enjoy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition
The ever reliable wikipedia has a lengthy article detailing numerous facets of cognition, both in a psychological context, as well as others. I’m sure many other people will be using this source, but it is still a site to make note of.
cog
September 7th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Site 1:
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~geo/Miller.pdf
review of site 1 here: This site really helps me better understand the history and principles of the cognitive revolution that we talked about in Chapter 1. It discuss the things we discussed in class and more.
tags for site 1 here: cog3310 Chapter1Review Cognitive revolution
Site 2: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/theneuron.html
review of site 2 here: This site helps me to understand the neuron and the various parts of it better. It has very good pictures that show you just how it works to transmit information. It shows a little more than the textbook.
tags for site 2 here: cog3310 neuron Chapter1Review psychology prof_chuck
September 10th, 2007 at 9:10 am
http://www.physorg.com/news97825267.html
Evolutionary Implications on Cognative Psychology
This is an interesting read. It contains some useful data that could supplemental in writing a paper.
http://del.icio.us/DCC3310
September 10th, 2007 at 9:25 am
http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/Anthro179a/DistributedCognition.pdf
Paper on Cognitive Psychology
This scholarly paper gives a first hand account of the debate raging between behaviorists and more environmentally and culturally based theorists. It leaves the reader with an appreciation for where we are now and how we got here.
http://del.icio.us/DCC3310
September 10th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Michele Wiesner Chapter 1: Structuralism and The Human Brain
Site 1:
http://web.umr.edu/~psyworld/structuralism.htm#
Review: I like this site because it explains structuralism, its origins and its flaws; I needed an overview of structuralism, and the short description of its flaws helped me to relate this school of psychology to present-day concepts. The website itself is pretty short, so it’s useful for an explanation, but perhaps not for an in-depth research paper. I would recommend it as a useful summary and a starting point for further research into a particular aspect of Wundt or the schools of psychology.
Tags: structuralism Wundt psychology cognition cog3310 schoolsofpsych psychologyhistory ch1
Rational of Tags: I chose the cog3310/cognition/psychology tags because they are directly related to the title and subject matter of this course. The website focuses around structuralism and Wundt (two other tags), which are part of the schools of psychology (schoolsofpsych) and the history of psychology (psychologyhistory). I chose ch1 tag because I knew that this information pertained to the first chapter in our cognition book.
Site 2: http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/brain/index.html
Review: This site is really interesting because it provides an interactive model for studying the brain. Again, the website doesn’t go into a lot of depth, but the basic structures and lobes of the brain may be viewed, along with their function, which I thought appropriate since our book didn’t delve too deeply into the structures of the brain. Another interesting aspect of this website is that it provides a small section devoted to current brain research, which helps the viewer to connect the structures and functions they’re studying to current health issues. This isn’t an appropriate website for research, but it’s good for studying.
Tags: psychology brain brainstructures cog3310 cognition NGCSU neuroscience ch1
Rational for Tags: The brain/brainstructures tag is relevant to the subject matter of the website. The tags psychology/cog3310/cognition/NGCSU pertain to our class and our institution. Neuroscience tag is relevant to another class I’m taking, and the ch1 tag is relevant to the first placement of this subject matter in our book.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Site 1.) http://www.cogsci.northwestern.edu/courses/cg207/Readings/Miller_Cognitive_Revolution.pdf
REVIEW: Goes into some details on the history of the cognitive revolution in psychology. This paper is a good way to get a better understanding of the background of the cognitive revolution and is useful to anyone needing more on this topic.
TAGS: cognition revolution psychology cog3310 history science perspective
I picked these tags because Cognition revolution was the topic, it is in psychology, we are in cog3310 so I found that to be an important tag, I tagged history, science, and perspective because they were all in the title of the article.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I.)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ap.html
This website explains how action potential works. It does go into more detail than the book does on the topic, so beware. An interesting fact on the website is that most of what we know about neurons comes from the squid!
cog3310 neuroscience neuron actionpotential restingpotential
I picked these tags because they are terms that are used in the article and they relate to the information being covered.
II.)
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/know_your_brain.htm
This website is from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and it does a good job of explaining the brain. It covers the same material as the book so there is not much extra information to read. It also has a little information about neurotransmitters.
cog3310 neuroscience brain lobes neurotransmitters
I used these tags because this article is just about the brain. It covers the different lobes of the brain and what they do. It also features some info about neurotransmitters.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Christie Cates- Behaviorism, Parts of the Brain and their Functions
Site 1:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/print?articleId=14132&fullArticle=true&tocId=9014132
review of site 1: This article discusses how Classical Behaviorism was concerned with measurable and observable data. It discards introspection, and it is purely objective. This article does into a little more detail about behaviorism than the book did.
tags for site 1: cog3310-behaviorism
rational of tags for site 1: I really don’t know what I am doing!! I put cog3310 in the tag because I thought we had to. I included behaviorism because that’s what the article discusses.
site 2: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/
review of site 2: The section of the website that seems to be the most helpful is 3-D Brain Anatomy. This site is especially helpful in understanding the parts of the brain and their functions. You can click on different parts of the brain, and that part will become isolated. This feature allows you to see some parts of the brain that cannot be seen in a regular book illustration. I really think it is neat!!
tags for site 2: cog3310-3D brain anatomy
rational of tags for site 2: Once again I don’t really know what I am doing!! I put 3d brain anatomy in the tag, because that is the most useful section of the site.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
1.
http://www.livescience.com/health/051227_neuron_growth.html
review: This site was interesting to me because it discusses neurons-which have always seemed like such an abstract concept-in a way that is easy to comprehend as well as discussing relatively new information. Discussions regarding aging and neural plasticity should interest evryone because what is going to be more important as we age than cognitive health and growth(besides bladder control i guess).
tags 1: cog3310 aging neurons plasticity
rational:i chose cog 3310 for the obvious easy class reference and aging so that i could relate the topiic into a relevant lifespan development category and neurons because it is the topic of the article and i personally need a little more understanding of neurons in general and plasticity because i think having a way to associate all the body/brain parts that have plasticity will be interesting and provide educational insight.
2.
http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psych101/languageandcognition/section5.rhtml
review: This website portrays information in an easy, painless manner. With lots of study guides and sample question it could come in as a handy extra study tool especially before tests.
Place tags for site 2 here: cog3310 studyguides psychology theory/authors
rational: I chose cog3310 for class reference-duh- and studyguides for a section i can use for extra help/resource questions so i can use the site before tests-the site will also apply to other psych classes in general which s why i tagged it the general psychology tag and is helpful for quick bios on theorist’s which to me would be best suited as theory/authors.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/
This was an interesting site to give you hands on with discovering how the brain interacts with behavior. And to behave you have to use cognition - pretty interesting! Because the first chapter focused a great deal with the brain, I thought this was a fun way to learn a variety of information.
Tags:
cog3310 visualgames cognition perception
I picked these tags because cog3310 is required, visual games because there is a games associated with the site, cognition to help me remember that this relates back to cognition, and perception because cognition is basically the interpretation of someone’s perception.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
http://www.answers.com/topic/cognition?cat=health
I like this site because the site puts information out there as if you were asking a question and they answer with several different sources, which I found very helpful. In addition, there are several links imbedded into the site for additional information. Very helpful.
Tags
cog3310 processing interesting
cog3310 required, processing the site talks about internal structures & processing, interesting because I found this to be interesting for all subjects; therefore I did not want to limit myself to just cognition.
September 10th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
I found this website to be very informational. It gives you a time line on all cognitive psychologists beginning in the 18th century to the present. Every psychologist has some information pertaining to their contribution to cognitive psychology.
September 10th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb
I found this website to be very informational. It gives you a time line on all cognitive psychologists beginning in the 18th century to the present. Every psychologist has some information pertaining to their contribution to cognitive psychology.
September 10th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
http://www.ualberta.ca/~neuro/OnlineIntro/Index.htm
Since chapter one has a section about cognitive neuroscience, I found this website to be very helpful in learning the components of the brain and its functions. The website has illustrations and graphics that help us better understand some of the concepts like neurons and the lobes of the brain.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
http://cognews.com/
Interesting site; Cool, recent facts about cognitive neuroscience/ psychology. This website actually helped me understand parts of the neuro section of chapter 1, and it also has some “crazy” info on it that is just fun to read (Ever wonder how much information we put in our heads?) …..find out at cognews.com
Cog3310 cognition_info neuroscience
I used these tags for the reason of “cog3310” is our class; “cognition_info” is basically the type of blog/website it is; and “neuroscience” because that is what I got the most out of it.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Site 1:
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005704/content_hl_cr.php3
Review 1:
I decided to focus on a specific part of this site (The Learning Curve) that was directly related to a topic in Chapter 1. It’s titled “The Cognitive Revolution” and this site gives a little imformation on the history of cognitive psychology mentioning Piaget, Skinner, & Chomsky and briefly mentions their parts in the revolution of cognitive psychology. Although the section on this topic is rather limited the rest of the site seems to hold more information and a range of topics we may need to cover. The lay out of the site is pretty basic and easy to navigate. I would use this site as an additional study tool but would not rely on it for tests or papers.
Tags 1:
cog3310 brain cognition psych revolution learning history
Rational 1:
I tagged this site with our required tag and also brain, cognition, & psych for obvious subject related reasons. I didn’t write psychology because I never do and I would just end up tagging other things this way out of habit.I tagged revolution because it’s in the title of the topic, and learning because of the process, and history because it’s related to the history of cognitive psych.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
http://home.sandiego.edu/~taylor/cogip.html
This site gives a decent overview of cognitive psychology, especially as it applies to the information processing paradigm we have been talking about in class. It goes into a little more detail, however, outlining some theoretical foundations and assumptions, top-down vs. bottom-up processing, as well as how research was and should be conducted to study how information is processed. The article is to the point and outlined cleanly, making for a decent (yet possible too thourough) study guide on the topic.
cognition overview informationprocessing paradigms antecedents engineering neobehaviorism learning liguistics computer pretheories research assumptions top-down bottom-up processing questions cog3310 history
Most of these tags are important topics in the article, as well as some key words found throughout the page, I also included tags that will help categorize the type of article it is and how it could be used for us, as students like ‘overview’ and ‘history’ as well as some tags simply labeling the class topic and information processing key words.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070811213026.htm
This is an article in ScienceDaily that discusses some man-machine topics such as how research into cognition applies to new system designs within the field of national security and terrorism. In class, we touched on these concepts as they applied to the Cognitive Revolution yet are a fudamental purpose of studying cognition. The article is quite recent and the technological advances that this article highlights are remarkable as they come up with better and better computers to simulate human cognition. Very interesting article but not too educational or scientific.
informationprocessing cognition cog3310 man-machine security humanfactors computer technology sciencedaily sandia war biotechnologies nanotechnologies revolution august 2007
I tried to choose tags that I believed to be key words throughout the article as well as the article’s title and date. Again, I also included tags that pertain to the class such as ‘cognition’ and
September 11th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Site 2.)
http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/xlm314621.pdf
REVIEW: This is a great and rather long article that really is interesting. I think it applies well to Ch. 1 because it discusses a specific way of thinking (towards risks). It discusses how we process and think through the risk taking facters of our life.
TAGS: availability heuristics health risks regression toward the mean risk perception cog3310 psychology cognition
The reason I tagged the first ten words is because that was the words that was already chosen for this article as “keywords” and I added in cog3310 because it related to this class, and psychology and cognition because that is a good category for the article.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:34 am
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/03/artists_look_different.php
This site goes into detail and gives visual examples that prof Chuck stated in one of our first classes on how we visualize paintings. It’s actually really interesting, it depicts between how an artists visualizes something and a non-artist (psychologist), and how they remember what they have studied.
cog3310 visualization psychology
I chose visualization as a tag because that is what this site mainly covers, the fact of what artist or non-artist perceive when shown a painting and what they can remember from it. Then I chose psychology and cog3310 because it goes along with our class (just trying to keep things in order)
September 11th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Site 1. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/topic.htm
This is a fantastic site for gaining background knowledge into the world of psychology. The page is divided into different areas of psychological study. When exploring the section on Cognition, the links take you to documents that have a strong historical presence in the field of Cognitive Psychology. The documents are a little chewy but there are a few that look at the basics of this field of study, many which we will soon study like perception and brain functioning. This site gives good information for either a paper or more in-depth supplemental material.
Tags: cog3310 Cognition History Historical-Figures Psychology Theory
Tag Rational: Psychology because this site can be used to explore many fields within Psychology, Cognition as it links to articles regarding Cognition and it’s history, History and Historical-Figures because these articles make up the back bone of the cognitive field and the contributors make the field possible.
Site 2. http://human-brain.org/human-brain-index.html
I chose this site after reading the information in the book on the brain and processing. I was a overwhelmed at all the information. This site offers theory on the nature of the brain and breaks it into general information. Links are available for more in-depth reading but I am sticking with the general pages. This site could be used for papers but works well in exploring the surface of the brain and cognition.
Tags: cog3310 Cognition Psychology Learning Theory Brain
Tag Rational: I used three typical tags so the article would be readily accessible. Theory is used because this article offers a theory, no matter how well recognized, into the inner working of the human brain. Learning because this article explores how the human brain, i.e. another tag, takes in information and processes it.
September 11th, 2007 at 11:13 am
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unsure-cognition
This site was mind numbing and a complete waste of time…
September 11th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
http://princeton.edu/~freshman/gestalt/
This webpage from princeton provides a freshman level explanation of the history of gestalt psychology. More helpful, there are pictures included to help illustrate the point, and there are readings listed for further explanations.
Tags: cog3310 gestalt psychology
Tag rational: I used these tags to show that this website pertains to cog3310, and it discusses gestalt psychology.
http://westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/psychology/pages/smith/general/lectureoutlines/9humandevelop/piaget.html
This is from westmont college and it discusses piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It was very helpful to me to see it all listed out the way the website has. It also listed some of the criticisms of Piaget’s theory.
cog3310 Piaget cognitive-development criticisms
The tags show that the website pertains to cog 3310, and I used Piaget and cognitive development for people who are searching for Piaget info, or cognitive development info. I aslo put criticisms in case someone needed to see criticisms of the theory.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
#1 Review:This sites goes over the 7 Themes in Cognitive Psychology, Historical Figures in Psychology, and Behaviorism. It explains these topics well and in terms you can understand.
Tags:cog. psyc. I just used these two because it is an over view of cognitive psychology.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
This is an attempt to try to learn how to tag these sites. I need help from Chuck as well as some classmates to learn this new information sharing. I am from the 1960-1972 school years and these are really new challenges for me.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
#2 Review: This site goes over how cognitive psychology is different from behaviorism and psychoanalysis. Also, it mentions the topics and influential people.
Tags: Cog. Psyc. I used these two tags because the site explains what cognitive psychology is.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
I thought I would go to the Duke University site and see what the scientist there was doing. This seem to be a good site to follow up on some of today’s research.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
http://www.mind.duke.edu/main/news.html
I thought I would go to the Duke University site and see what the scientist there was doing. This seem to be a good site to follow up on some of today’s research.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition
This is an attempt to try to learn how to tag these sites. I need help from Chuck as well as some classmates to learn this new information sharing. I am from the 1960-1972 school years and these are really new challenges for me.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
http://www.mind.duke.edu/main/news.html
I thought I would go to the Duke University site and see what the scientist there was doing. This seem to be a good site to follow up on some of today’s research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition
This is an attempt to try to learn how to tag these sites. I need help from Chuck as well as some classmates to learn this new information sharing. I am from the 1960-1972 school years and these are really new challenges for me.
I am still trying to get this right! H E L P !!!!!!!
September 11th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Ok I wil quit for today, time for class, see you all later.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
I don’t know if we are allowed to use video websites but I found this 4 minute video on youtube. It explains chapter one by discribing EEG’s, PET scans, and fMRI’s. It also decribes Neuroscience, neurotransmitters, positrons, and also shows pictures of actual brain EEG’s with problems like Alzheimer’s and Autism. If you hate reading or find this chapter difficult, then you should check out this video. I found it very helpful.
Tags: EEG, fMRI, PET, neurotransmitters, positrons, alzheimer’s, cog3310, neuroscience
I gave these tags because these are the main ideas the video discusses. Also I think a Nueroscience class as well as Cognition could find it helpful.
September 11th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology
This site is great in giving a basic understanding of cognitive psychology, as well as the history of cognition and some major research areas of cognitive psychology. It serves in part as a sort of introduction to the course. I suppose I took the easy way out in tagging this site but hey, I’m learning the system!
Tags: cog3310, cognition, psychology
These tags are very relevant and very general; just like the website!
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_10/d_10_cr/d_10_cr_lan/d_10_cr_lan.html
This is a great website for explanations on various brain functions. The site even has different levels of explanation (from beginner to advanced) and can be organized neurologically, psychologically, and other relevant ways. This particular part of the website focuses on language-processing areas in the brain (like Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area) that pertain to the material in class.
Tags: cog3310, cognition, psychology, broca’s area, wernicke’s area, brain
I tagged this website for class as well as the general term “brain” because it has information on just about every part of the brain.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Site 2:
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/cognitive.shtml
Review 2:
I really liked this site. It has links to a lot of psychology subtopics and academic areas. I really liked the fact that it has a Cognitive Psycholgy Tutor section where you can take an interactive quiz to test yourself in real-life associations. It’s great because it’s not just limited to definitions.
Tags 2:
cog3310 psych research science interactive
Rational 2:
The only additional tag I used for this was interactive because I know it helps me learn better if I’m using a trail and error system instead of just reading text. This tag will help me to remember this aspect.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Site 1: http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/single-records/1467.html
Review 1: This site has a wealth of information about musical cognition and how music affects and stimulates the mind. I fiound it interesting.
Tags: cog 3310, music
Rational 1: I used music as a tag so if I want to look up information on this particular branch of cognition later then it will be easier to find.
Site 2: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505626/description
Review 2: This site offers many articles and journal entries on cognition and is a good resouce.
Tags 2: cog 3310, journals
Rational 2: I used journals as a tag entry so that when I am searching my database for journal entries then I can remember which sites specified in those.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:15 am
1. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/
This site goes through the history of the brain, 3-D anatomy, mind illusions, and brain scanning. It helps to explain each subject.
Tags: brain; cognition; neuroscience; psychology; mind; brain scanning; imaging; cog3310
2. http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/brain/index.html
This site helps you to get to know the human brain and how it works. It goes through pictures of each area and explains what it does.
Tags: brain; cognition; neuroscience; cog3310
3. human-brain.org/human-brain-index.html
This site explains areas of cognitive thinking in the brain. It provides further links to help explain different parts of the brain. I found this site very helpful.
Tags: cognition; brain; neuroscience; cog3310
September 13th, 2007 at 10:57 am
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html
Review: This site is very interesting! It contains a lot of facts and figures on the brain so you get a clear picture of what it really looks like. It contains a lot of really useless facts as far as this class goes but it many prove to be helpful in another class.
Tags: cog3310 facts statistics brain senses psychology .
Rational: The site contains many facts and statistics about the brain and it also talks about facts for all the other senses.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/ai.html
Review: This site goes in depth to look at the actually people involved in the cognitive movement. It gives a detailed history of each of them and talks specifically about the roles they played to better psychology.
Tags: cog3310 cognitive movement history of psychology
Rational: The site talks only about the history of the cognitive movement. The people the site discuss play important roles in the foundation of cognition and psychology.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/wundtjames.html
Review 1: This site has a good overview of wundt’s life and, and goes over the general concept of of his theories, as well as compares his theories with others
Tag: Cognition 3310 CH1
http://www.gestalt.org/
Review 2: wide range of information of gestalt theory; different resources and links for the theory as well as other networks.
Tag: Cognition 3310 CH1
September 13th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
1. http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/1107sr-add07Z8.html
Describes an alternative method of treating ADHD that does not use drugs.
Tags: alternative treatment ADHD ritalin therapy drugless brain waves neurofeedback COG3310
2. http://www.cogneurosociety.org/content/links
Links out to the affiliated universities’ related websites. Must be a member to view newsletter however.
Tags: cognitive neuroscience society links COG3310
September 13th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Amanda’s Website #1 I Found
The Website I Found For Website #1: http://coglab.wadsworth.com/
Brief Title: Cognitive Psychology Online Laboratory and Information Website
Review: This website I found has a lot of information we will be learning not just with Chapter One, but also for about all of the information for the semester it seems. It discusses, defines, and gives examples and more for tons of areas. The areas include:
1. Attention
2. Perception
3.Neurocognition
4.Sensory Memory
5. Short-Term Memory
6.Working Memory
7.Memory Processes
8.Metamemory
9.Imagery
10.Speech& Language
11.Concepts
12.Judgement
13.Tutorial
This website is mostly experiments and things to practice with for each type of area it focuses on. They take anywhere from 20+ min to do each one, but the main reason I like this website is because it helps me focus on what types of experiments you would use in testing or experimenting or learning how to use certain areas of study we are learning about.
Tags: Website for PSYC 3310 Cognition Cognitive Psychology CogLab Lab Online Laboratory Attention Perception Neurocognition Sensory Memory Short-Term Working Processes Metamemory Imagery Speech& Language Concepts Judgement Tutorial Experiments
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September 16th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/iacs/what.html
This is a good article that defines cognitive psychology and gives a brief history of it. It also discusses other fields linked to cognitive psychology. I thought it was a simple way to look at cognitive science and get an idea of careers and what other research is going on in the field today.
Tags: cog3310 prof_chuck psychology mind cognitionhistory cognition
I tagged this site to our class and also to “mind” due to the need later to look at the mind or the study of cognition.
http://library.thinkquest.org/18242/ai_phil.shtml
This article is very interesting about Artificial intelligence and how complex the brain is. It shows how hard it would be to make a computer that could mimick the human brain.
Tags:cog3310 psychology prof_chuck AI cognition
I tagged these to the class and Psychology but also added AI for future reference to Artificial Intelligence.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
1.http://academic.udayton.edu/gregelvers/hop/welcome.asp
This site basically has lots of information about historical and influential figures in the history of Cognitive Psychology.
Tags: History cog3310 College Chp1 People
September 16th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
2. http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/
This website has to deal with current events in Cognitive Psychology. This website posts a new article everyday. It’s a good place to serve some information about personal application of Cognitive Psychology, but for history and definition purposes for studying, it is not very valuable.
Cog 3310 Public Article Current Events Cognition Cognitive
September 16th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
http://www.scientificpsychic.com/graphics/
This site is a fun site just showing some of the many tricks perception can play on your mind. No educational Value.
Cog3310 Chp2 Perception illusions visual fun
September 17th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~geo/Miller.pdf
Review of site 1:
This site has a lot of insight in to the revolution of cognitive psychology. It talks about the end of behaviorism, and how the revolution had two parts. This site is kind of hard to read because of the layout, but has some very useful information.
Tags: ch.1review, cog3310, cognition, psychology, cognitiverevolution
Review of tags 1:
I choose ch.1 review as a tag so that when I am going to study for the test I will be able to find it. Cog3310 I put so that I know it is for this class. Cognition so that if I am research something for cognition it will pull up. I put psychology because it is in that field, and cognitive revolution because that is what the article is about.
http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/brain/index.html
Review of site 2:
This site has an in depth view of the human brain. Since the brain is so complex, this site is really helpful in trying to learn everything. The book does a ok job of explaining the brain, however, it is much easier for me to learn with visual stimulation, so if this is you too take a look at this website.
Tags: cog3310 cognition psychology brain ch.1review neuroscience
Review of tags 2:
I choose cog3310, cognition, and psychology all because they pertain to this class. I choose brain because that is what the website is about, and neuroscience because this website may be helpful when I take that class. I choose ch1review so that when I am studying for the test I can find this site.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
udel.edu/fth/pbs/webmodel.htm
This web site likens cognitive psychology to the computer world. Provides comparison table of teacher-dominated perspectives versus cognitive perspectives on education. This site provides a quick synopses on cognition and provides several working definitions/illustrations.
Tags: cog3310, computer, education vs. cognition table, psychology
Review of tags:
I choose cog 3310 because it pertains to this class, I chose computer because it compares cog. psychology to a computer, I chose education vs cognition table because it provides a table, and I chose psychology because it is about psychology.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Amanda’s Website #2 I Found
The Website I Found For Website #2: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-brocas-area.htm
Brief Title: What is Broca’s Area?
Review: This website tells a lot about the Broca’s Area (Wernicke’s Area) for the brain. It has a graphic/picture and details about what would occur if it were damaged. It gives direct links to other information about this certain area, Types of Aphasia, Brain Damage, and links to the WebMD website which I also find very helpful for a lot of the information when dealing with any types of science, psychology, mind, body, and other.
Tags: Website For Broca’s Area Wernicke’s Broca Wernicke Cognition Psychology Cog 3310 Wise Geek Aphasia Speech Impairment Production of Brain
September 18th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
The Reasoning Behind My Tags… “ “ ‘s are used to pin point my “tag” words I used.
Website One:
“Website for PSYC 3310 Cognition”-I used these words because it’s a website for our class, so I named it this just in case later on in school if I have had billions of websites, I can easily remember, hopefully, it was for the “Cognitive Psychology” class.
“CogLab Lab Online Laboratory”- These words are all located on the actual website describing what it is. It is a Cognition Online Laboratory.
“Attention Perception Neurocognition Sensory Memory Short-Term Working Processes Metamemory Imagery Speech& Language Concepts Judgement Tutorial Experiments”-All of these words I used because they are the sub categories for the areas you can go into and look for information, examples, and other useful sources.
Website Two:
“Website For Broca’s Area Wernicke’s”-I used these words because it describes that it is a website for describing the Broca’s Area and/or Wernicke’s Area.
I used “Broca Wernicke” because if I search for it later on, I may have typed it with or without a ‘
September 18th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
My Review of Website Posted By:
Michele Weisner’s Website:
http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/brain/index.html
I think was helpful - mostly because I like the flash activity/visual way for learning the information for the brain.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/soc/s00/soc111-01/IntroTheories/Functionalism.html
This is a very informative article on the definiton of functionalism and how functionalists view introspection, giving you an idea of a functionalists perspective on cognition.
Tags: cog3310 functionalism cognition
September 19th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/29/hearts__minds/
This article describes how the Cognitive Revolution separated the field of psychology from behaviorism, creating a division between thinking and feeling. This revolutionized psychology as a whole.
Tags: cog3310 cognition revolution
September 19th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
http://tip.psychology.org/piaget.html
this article shows piaget’s theory of how cognitive structure changes throughout childhood through assimilation and accomodation and he has 4 stages that this occurs in
tags: cog3310 Piaget cognition childhood
September 19th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
http://ma.essortment.com/perceptualpsych_pcq.htm
nativism and empiricism greatly influence perception where nativists support the bottom up and the empiricist supports top down approach
tags: cog3310 nativism empiricism
September 19th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/cognitiv.htm
This site gives a brief overview of the history of various people in cognitive psychology.
tags: cognition; cog3310
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/
This web site provides information about neuroscience as it relates to cognition.
tags: cognition; neuroscience; brain; cog3310
September 19th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Whitney Hampton, on September 7th, 2007 at 11:11 am Said:
Site 1:
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~geo/Miller.pdf
Review:
I found this website to obtain ALOT of information.. Very helpful- THANKS whitney!
September 19th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Jennifer Collins, on September 19th, 2007 at 3:37 pm Said:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/29/hearts__minds/
Review:
This news article was very interesting. I found the information easy to understand.
Thanks Jennifer!
September 19th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Review of Angie Rink’s website:
http://www.answers.com/topic/cognition?cat=health
This website gives a lot of information about the different aspects of cognition, such as basic theories, uses for understanding, methods of studying, et cetera. While this isn’t a website to use for an academic paper, it provides many different explanations for what cognition is.
Review of Maurissa Whitaker’s website:
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005704/content_hl_cr.php3
This specific part of the site is a short little segment about the “cognitive revolution.” It’s pretty brief, but it looks like the site holds a lot of info about learning. I agree that it’s not really a site for tests or papers, but it’s useful for broadening your understanding of the history of cognition.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/bassens.html
Site 1 Review:
I found the picture in the textbook of the somatosensory cortex interesting, but a little confusing so I found this website that explains the somatosensory system a little more in detail. This website explains how we distinguish different sensations and what parts of the brain and spinal cord are responsible for this. It gives diagrams and figures that highlight the parts of the brain so you can visualize what part they are trying to explain.
Tags: cog3310, somatosensory pathway, brain
Rational for tags: I choose somatosensory pathway and brain for tags because that is what the webpage is mainly explaining and cog3310 because it relates to this class.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Website 1
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/theneuron.html
The Neuron -
Good website and would definately be great for use with any paper. Website gives an extensive look at the neuron. It talks about action potential, synapse, and the different types of neurons. Also has great pictures.
Tags: Cog3310, The Brain, Synapses, Action Potential, Neuron
Website 2
http://www.psycheducation.org/emotion/hippocampus.htm
The Hippocampus-
This website deals mainly with the Hippocampus. The book didn’t give a lot of information on it except it is part of the limbic system. I felt this website with further the knowledge that may be needed for the test.
Tags: Cog3310, Hippocampus, Limbic System, Brain, Cognition
September 19th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
I reviewed Amanda Patricks site:
http://coglab.wadsworth.com/
this site was great.its an actual cog lab so i guess if anyone is ever bored they can find something to do here…but it really is applicable for the test if you are more of a hands on person.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
http://members.bainbridge.net/~bill.adams/introspection.htm
Review Site 2:
This site explains the method of introspection, gives detail on the founder, along with how the experiments and process of observing this method took place. It also explains the problems and errors that were found in using introspection and how the psychologists of the time like Wundt and Titchener addressed these problems.
Tags: cog3310, psychology, introspection, Wilhelm Wundt, cognition
Rational for tags: I used cog3310 because it is for this class, psychology and cognition because introspection falls under those categories, introspection because that is what the webpage is about, and Wilhelm Wundt because he was founder of the method of introspection
September 19th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
http://www.cogtest.com/publication/cogtest-aami.pdf
Cognitive experiment of age associated memory impairment on the verbal, visual and auditory memory.
Tags: cog3310, cognition, verbal/visual and auditory memory, experiment, psychology
Review of tags: I chose 3310 because it is for this class, I chose cognition because that is the chapter we are studying, I chose verbal/visual and auditory memory because that is what is being tested, I chose experiment because it is an experiment and I chose psychology because it is about psychology.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
I reviewed Stacy Newman’s web-site:
http://tip.psychology.org/piaget.html
I found this site helpful in providing a brief historical review of Piaget’s cognitive structures of child development.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Site 1
http://www.iol.ie/~cq/elearning/What_is_Cognition_.htm
This is general information about cognition
Cog 3310: cognition
Site 2
http://www.cdl.org/resource-library/articles/attention2.php
A lot of facts about attention we discussed in class on Tuesday
Cog3310: attention
Site 3
psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/Sensation_and_Perception.htm
John Krantz: Sensation and Perception Tutorials
Discover tutorials and demonstrations on a variety of topics in sensation and perception including linear perspective, figure-ground perception, spatial summation, and color aftereffects. These examples are a great resource for understanding different concepts involved in the perceptual process.
Cog 3310: sensation and perception
Site 4
psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/f/cogpsych.htm
Cognition and the history with names and other information about cognition I found out to be very helpful.
Cog 3310: cognition and history
September 19th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
site 1: http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/cognitiv.htm
review site 1: This site gives a complete and descriptive outline of psychology history. Starting in the 18th century into the 19th century. It is organized by influential psychologist of the past detailing their ideas and theories. It helps to keep them in order as to who did what and when.
tags site 1: cog3310, psychology, school, history
rational of tags site 1: cog3310 because that is the class we are in and psychology because i know i may need to refer to this info for other classes, and history because it details psychologies history.
site 2: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
review site 2: I was looking for a website to help with information on the brain and found this neuroscience website for kids, ok its for kids but the does not mean it does not have valuable information on it. it really helped with detailing the brain and has great info about neruoscience and the sensory systems.
tags site 2 : cog3310, psychology, neuroscience, brain, school
rational of tags site 2: cog3310 class, brain and neuroscience because the website helps give information about those to topics and it maybe help full when i take the neuroscience class.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:41 am
URLhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050814162218.htm
Place review of site 1 here: A good site to leran more on sternbergs paradigm and how its used in scientific experiments. Also good for cognitive and memory research on how alcohol effects these processes.
cog3310 ch1 sternberg paradigm cog processing
Place rational of tags for site 1 here: the tags are for sternberg paradigm research and cognitive processing easily recognizable
site 2 here.http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v6/n7/abs/nn1077.html
Place review of site 2 here: Specifies the functions of the Broca’s area more in depth in human linguistics learning. Good for research in cognitive restraints.
cog3310 ch1 Broca’sarea cogprocesses
Place rational of tags for site 2 here: borac’s area because its in the title and cogprocess for ch1
September 20th, 2007 at 9:53 am
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/smartd.html
Perhaps this is more of an entertaining article. It refers to the possibility of taking drugs to enhance smartness; however, those pills may help brain function, but, decreasing the amount of studying is not likely.
cog3310, neuroscience, smart, drugs, chapter 1
I chose these tags to remind me and give me reference to any neuroscience or drug information I could use in the future and to remind me from what chapter of the book I was coming from.
http://www.belmont.k12.wi.us/faculty2/klein/cognitive_disabilities.htm
A small article giving samples of cognitive disorders, followed by several myths and facts. It serves the purpose of understanding characteristics of those with cog disorders.
cog3310, cognitive, disabilities, children, chapter 1
These tags tell me that this article relates to each of these topics. If I need information for any of the above tag reasons, I can directly go to them.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:45 am
http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/1107sr-add07Z8.html
This is interesting. I would love to see more specific results, however, this is better than throwing pills down childrens throats and it could hold promise to treating the problem rather than the symptom.
Thanks for posting this!
September 20th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I reviewed this site- I thought it was very helpful and it does a good job explaining the history of it.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
: http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/cognitiv.htm
forgot to post the website.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
http://cogprints.org/3373/1/evolutioncognition.html
A link between evolution and its effect on our present day cognitive processes.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/02/08_brain.shtml
Scans are now being used to predict some neurological diseases.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Review of Staci Youngblood
http://cogprints.org/3373/1/evolutioncognition.html
Interesting to get a bit of historical background and ideas. Thanks.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Review of Whitney Hampton
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/theneuron.html
I loved the action potential diagram. Great info on neurons! Thanks so much.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
http://westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/psychology/pages/smith/general/lectureoutlines/9humandevelop/piaget.html
This site goes over Piaget’s Theory of Cognition really well. Definitely something to look at.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
This is minute long video that explains and shows illustrations about the hypothalamus. I am a visual person so if you are too, this is perfect for your chapter one review!
tags: cog3310, hypothalamus, psychology, neuroscience, cognition
I chose these tags because this video is specifically meant to explain the hypothalamus which is a part of the brain. This results to cognition and psychology as well as neuroscience.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Ugh! I messed up the url in the previous comment! Here it is sorry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1sZ47s8h_M
September 20th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkn3wRyb9Bk
Wow, this video is CRAZY! It plays some mind tricks on you but it is an experiment done in the 80’s about attention so check it out.
tags: cog3310, attention, illusions, visual, cognition, psychology
I chose these tags because there is a visual attention test performed that involved cognition and psychology.