PSYC 512: Advanced Cognitive Psychology

Readings – Spring 2019

Week of Topic Assignment

January 14th Introduction to Cognitive Textbook (Ch. 1, pp. 1-10)
Psychology Neisser (1967/2014, pp. 3-11)
Barsalou (1992, pp. 1-12)
January 21st The Science of Cognition Textbook (Ch. 1, pp. 11-26)
Posner (1973, pp. 1-14)
Hunt (1999, pp. 3-17, 34-35, 43-45)
January 28th Perception Textbook (Ch. 2)
Marr (2000)
February 4th Attention and Performance Textbook (Ch. 3)
Strayer & Johnston (2001)
Psychonomic Society Featured Content
February 11th Mental Imagery Textbook (Ch. 4)
Pylyshyn (2002)
February 18th Representation of Textbook (Ch. 5)
Knowledge Barsalou (2008)
February 25th Memory Textbook (Ch. 6, 7)

March 4th Mardi Gras

March 11th Problem Solving Textbook (Ch. 8)
Shettleworth (2012)
March 18th Expertise Textbook (Ch. 9)
Ericsson, Prietula, & Cokely (2007)
Psychonomic Society Featured Content
March 25th Reasoning Textbook (Ch. 10)
Nickerson (1998)
April 1st Decision Making Textbook (Ch. 11)
Goldberg (1970)
April 8th Language Textbook (Ch. 12, 13)

April 15th Spring Break

April 22nd Individual Differences Textbook (Ch. 14)

Sternberg (2014)
April 29th Course Review
May 6th Finals Week Final Exam - Monday, May 6th at 1:30PM
 References

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological

Association (6th ed.). Washington, D.C.: APA.

Anderson, J. R. (2015). Cognitive psychology and its implications. New York, NY: Worth
Publishers.

Neisser, U. (2014). The cognitive approach. In Cognitive psychology: Classic edition (pp. 3-11).
New York: Psychology Press. (Original work published 1967)

Barsalou, L. W. (1992). Introduction. In Cognitive psychology: An overview for cognitive

scientists (pp.1-14). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Posner, M. I. (1973). A history of memory and thought. In Cognition: An introduction (pp. 1-13).
Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company.

Hunt, E. (1999). What is a theory of thought? In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The nature of cognition
(pp. 3-49). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Marr, D. (2000). Vision. In R. Cummins & D. D. Cummins (Eds.), Minds, brains, and
computers: The foundations of cognitive psychology (pp. 69-83). Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, Ltd.

Strayer, D. L., & Johnston, W. A. (2001). Driven to distraction: Dual task studies of simulated
driving and conversing on a cellular telephone. Psychological Science, 12, 462-466.

Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Mental imagery: In search of a theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
25, 157-238.

Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Grounded cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 617-645.

Shettleworth, S. J. (2012). Do animals have insight, and what is insight anyway? Canadian
Journal of Experimental Psychology/ Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale,
66, 217-226.

Ericsson, K. A., Prietula, M. J., & Cokely, E. T. (2007). The making of an expert. Harvard
Business Review, 85, 114-121.

Nickerson, R. S. (1998). Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. Review

of General Psychology, 2, 175-220.

Goldberg, L. R. (1970). Man versus model of man: A rationale, plus some evidence, for a
method of improving on clinical inference. Psychological Bulletin, 73, 422-432.

Sternberg, R. J. (2014). Teaching about the nature of intelligence. Intelligence, 42, 176-179.