🗓 Unit 7 - Thinking & Cognition

Summary

Learning Objectives

• Describe cognition
• Describe how schemata are organized and constructed
• Explain the relationship between language and thinking
• Identify the difference between intelligence theories

Prepare for Today

Readings

• What Is Cognition?

• Language

• Problem Solving

• What Are Intelligence and Creativity?

• Measures of Intelligence

• The Source of Intelligence

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Lecture Slides

Takeaways

• Cognitive psychology is the study of cognition, or the brain’s ability to think, perceive, plan, analyze, and remember
• Roadblocks to problem solving include a mental set, functional fixedness, and various biases that can interfere with decision making
• Intelligence is a complex characteristic of cognition that is difficult to measure

Today’s Assignment

Activity

• In this activity you will be watching the music video for the 2012 song “Please don’t…” (English translation) by the KPop artist K.will.
• Find the Unit 7 Activity on Canvas and follow the instructions. You need to complete all the steps to get full credit for this activity.
  
• Afterwards you will reflect on the experience and post on your Tribe’s Unit 7 discussion board.

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Recommended links for additional learning

Topic	Description	Links
The Bell Curve	More in depth discussion of the problems with discussion of race and IQ	Article
WWI Era IQ Testing	See how you would do on a WWI era IQ test.	Website