Cognitive+Level+of+Analysis

= Cognitive Level of Analysis =

**Examples of student work...**
TED ON MEMORY SUMMARIES LO 8 - Explain how biological factors may affect one cognitive process - student responses @PADLET POSTER ON TECH RESEARCH LO 10

Cognitive Level of Analysis Learning Objectives (these are the exam questions!)
 * Outline principles that define the cognitive level of analysis
 * Explain how principles that define the cognitive level of analysis may be demonstrated in research
 * Discuss how and why particular research methods are used at the cognitive level of analysis
 * Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies at the cognitive level of analysis
 * Evaluate schema theory with reference to research studies
 * Evaluate two models or theories of one cognitive process
 * Explain how biological factors may affect one cognitive process
 * Discuss how social or cultural factors affect one cognitive process
 * With reference to relevant research studies, to what extent is cognitive process reliable?
 * Discuss the use of technology in investigating cognitive process
 * To what extent do cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion?
 * Evaluate one theory of how emotion may affect one cognitive process

**Resources - Eye witness testimony and memory (LO#6)**
[|Find out about the Loftus and Palmer (1974) experiment] Interactive site (videos, quizzes, etc..) [|The Loftus study on eye witness testimony - written]

** Cognitive Resources on Emotion **
 *  Emotion – Collection of articles relating to the psychology of emotion written for and collated by Time Magazine.
 * Daniel Goleman on compassion video link

General Resources


 * [|Attention Alert: A Study on Distraction Reveals Some Surprises]
 * [|How Exercise Can Jog the Memory]
 * [|Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists?]
 * [|Want A Less Fussy, Easier to Soothe, Kinder Child? Make Music!]
 * [|The Amygdala Made Me Do It]
 * [|Role of Meditation in Brain Development Gains Scientific Support]
 * [|Phys Ed: How Muscle Workouts May Boost Brainpower]
 * [|Multitasking – not so bad for you after all?]
 * [|Tiger Mom Approach Makes Cubs Depressed, a Study Says]
 * [|Losing Your Religion? Analytic Thinking Weakens Religious Belief]
 * [|Mind and Body: Investigating the Health and Science of Meditation]
 * [|Mind and Body: Investigating the Health and Science of Meditation]
 * [|How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain]
 * [|Matisse was a neuroscientist]
 * [|The power of perceptions: Imagining the reality you want]

SUMMER PROJECT RESOURCES
 * Education, Creativity, and Prosperity: East versus West
 * Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children
 * Matching Teaching Styles with Learning Styles in East Asian Contexts
 * Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans
 * A Western Perspective on Teaching Taiwanese Students- Cultural Differences in Higher Education

KEY TERMS

**Amygdala**

 * Bottom-up Processing**
 * Chunking**
 * Cognition**
 * Distortions**
 * Emotional Memory**
 * Emotion-focused Coping**
 * Episodic Memory**
 * Explicit Memory**
 * False Memories**
 * Fight or Flight**
 * Flashbulb Memory**
 * Hippocampus**
 * Implicit Memory**
 * Mental Representations**
 * Multi-store Model of Memory**
 * Perception**
 * Problem-focused Coping**
 * Procedural Memory**
 * Reconstructive Memory**
 * Repression**
 * Schema/Schema Theory**
 * Semantic Memory**
 * Social Comparison Theory**
 * Stereotyping**
 * Top-down Processing**
 * Working Memory Model**