Introductory Psych

Chapter 7 Text Assignment

Please type your name at the top of the document.  Please type your answers in Red and save your completed document on your computer.  Then, submit the completed assignment as per the instructions outlined on Blackboard.

1. Construct an essay describing how the Information Processing Three Stage Memory Model explains how you are able to hear a lecture in class, process the information, and retain it in your memory, and then access the information for an exam.  You must include each of the following terms in your essay:

Sensory Memory                           Iconic Memory                                    Echoic Memory

Selective Attention                       Encoding                                             Decay

Duration                                        Capacity                                              Short Term Memory

Working Memory                         Visual Spatial Sketchpad                    Central Executive

Phonological Loop                       Maintenance Rehearsal                       Elaborative Rehearsal

Consolidation                                Long Term Memory                           Implicit Memory

Declarative Memory                     Nondeclarative Memory                     Explicit Memory

Autobiographical Memory            Procedural Memory                            Semantic Memory

Classical Conditioned Memory    Priming Memory                                 Episodic Memory

Retrieval                                        Retrieval Cues                                    Specific Cues

General Cues                                Recognition                                         Recall 

State Dependent Retrieval                        Encoding Specificity                           Mood Congruence     

Please underline and bold each key term.  Also please note that many of these terms are on the exam in an applied context.  Therefore, you need to know the meaning and application of each of the terms, and the duration and capacity of each memory stage.

• What biological factors influence your memory function?
• What is chunking, which specific memory can it help?
• How can the deeper level processing theory help you become a better student?
•  What is a flashbulb memory, and how does it apply to your life?
• Explain the difference between anterograde and retrograde amnesia, and provide an example of each.
• What are some of the main events and ages associated with higher risks of memory loss?
• Describe Alzheimer’s Disease including the symptoms, risk factors, and biological mechanisms involved.
• Explain Decay Theory.
• Based on Interference theory, what is the difference between proactive and retroactive interference?
• Explain how you personally apply massed practice and distributed practice as a student.  Which approach is better supported by the research?
• What have you learned about false memories?

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Review the important themes within the sub questions of each bullet point. The sub questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your classmates have already posted so that we can engage several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to re-use the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue. One page and references. 

· Many pitfalls commonly plague inexperienced coaches. As you evaluate what you have been learning about coaching, what are some of the common pitfalls? Which pitfall appears to be most common, most damaging, or the hardest to avoid? What steps can you take to eliminate that pitfall (or at least reduce its likelihood) in your coaching practices? Application to leadership?

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20 total Journal (Tx public policy newspaper) articles from weeks starting August 30 to November 19.  1-2 articles PER WEEK. 1 pt each.  Summaries and source info required.  Grades based on:

• 20 TOTAL TEXAS public policy news articles (no sports/weather).  1-2 articles per WEEK STARTING weekend of August 30 – 1 pt each.
• Include: a minimum 200  word summary of the article touching on the major ideas of the article AND your view of the article. 
• Include news source with DATE.  Include a link to your article or paste in the article (if you are using a subscription).  
• Use CREDIBLE Texas newspaper (dailies) sources. At the end of your last entry include a short summary of why your sources would be considered “credible” college level news sources.  (Do not include the “instructor said so”).

Note: Use the weekly journal “post” article link which puts a date time stamp on each entry. Avoid skipping weeks.  NO WORD FILE DOCUMENTS!  “Retro news” entries (falls outside of each weeks date) will receive half credit per entry. For this assignment “a week” is defined as Friday (ex: Aug 30) to the following Sunday  (ex: Sept 8).  In other words, the first journal news article date should fall between August 30 and Sept 8.  Proofread your work for required content and grammar.  (If you miss a week ADD an additional article the next week.) At the end of this assignment you should have entries per most weeks if not all.  Entry distribution counts.

*Once you find a news article and are ready to post your journal entry, click on the “Create Journal Entry”. Type or paste in your entry.  Click submit.  Review your work against the assignment criteria.  Edit if necessary.  For ideas on Texas daily newspapers see this link:  http://www.world-newspapers.com/texas.html   Other sources: Texas Tribune Texas Standard  (pod casts), Texas Observor, etc

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Our Product Name(everyday handheld device): Samsung Pods

In this textbook you will find in end of chapter1, that is assignment page 66.

Use APA formatting for in-text citations and the bibliography (if any). Use size 12 Times New Roman font with 1″ inch margins. There is not page or word count limits to this assignment. Be sure to answer the questions fully. Save your work in a Word docx file. Any other format will not be accepted.

Find an everyday handheld device, e.g. remote control, digital camera,

smartphone, Apple watch and examine how it has been designed, paying particular attention to how the user is meant to interact with it.

a. From your first impressions, write down what first comes to mind as

to what is good and bad about the way the device works.

b. Give a description of the user experience resulting from interacting

with it.

c. Based on your reading of this chapter and any other material you

have come across, compile a set of usability and user experience

goals that you think will be most relevant in evaluating the device.

Decide which are the most important ones and explain why.

d. Translate each of your sets of usability and user experience goals

into two or three specific questions. Then use them to assess how

well your device fares.

e. Repeat (c) and (d) but this time using the design principles outlined in

the chapter.

f. Finally, discuss possible improvements to the interface based on the

answers obtained for (d) and (e).

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Please write a 500-word summary of fair use as this court decision says it.

On April 18, 2016, The United States Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (refused to review the lower court’s ruling) in the case of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 804 F. 3d 202 – Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 2015.

Tell me what you would do if you were the Supreme Court.

That case let stand the ruling of the Court of Appeals which can be found at the following website:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2220742578695593916&q=Authors+Guild+v.+Google+Inc&hl=en&as_sdt=4000006  last accessed February 9, 2019.

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