Unit 6: Learning & Cognition

Unit Essential Questions:

Learning:

How do we learn and how does learning affect our behaviors?

Cognition:

How do memory, thinking, and intelligence affect the details of everyday life?

How do we remember, but also forget?

How do we solve problems, and are we intelligent?

Corresponding Modules/Chapters in Text:  (Thinking About Psychology Text)

Learning: Modules 14, 15, 16

Cognition: Modules 22, 23, 24, 25

Grades for the 3rd & 4th Quarter

Assessments:

1. Test on the Learning part of the unit (~40 points, 4th Quarter)
2. Cognition Stations Activity (15 points, 4th Quarter)
3. How do we remember? Activity (5 points; 4th Quarter)
4. Test on the Cognition part of the unit (~20 points, 4th Quarter)
5. Teaching Activity: How Do We Teach to Learn? (26 points, 4th Quarter)

Practice: 

1. (Optional Grade) Classical Conditioning Practice (10 points, 3rd Quarter)
2. HW # 1: Are you Intelligent? Response (10 points)