Cognition+Thinking

=__**Unit 7B - Cognition: Thinking, Problem Solving, Creativity, and Language - pages 298-322**__=

=__**APA Content Standard Area: Memory **__= //After concluding this unit, students understand: // 1. Basic elements comprising thought 2. Obstacles related to thought 1.1 Define cognitive processes involved in understanding information. 1.2 Define processes involved in problem solving and decision making. 1.3 Discuss non-human problem-solving abilities. 2.1 Describe obstacles to problem solving. 2.2 Describe obstacles to decision making. 2.3 Describe obstacles to making good judgments.
 * APA Content Standard Area: Thinking **
 * Content Standard 1: ** **Basic elements comprising thought**
 * Content Standard 2: ** **Obstacles related to thought**

//After concluding this unit, students understand: // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1. Structural features of language <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2. Theories and developmental stages of language acquisition <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">3. Language and the brain <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1.1 Describe the structure and function of language. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1.2 Discuss the relationship between language and thought. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2.1 Explain the process of language acquisition. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2.2 Discuss how acquisition of a second language can affect language development and possibly other cognitive processes. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2.3 Evaluate the theories of language acquisition. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">3.1 Identify the brain structures associated with language. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">3.2 Discuss how damage to the brain may affect language.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">APA Content Standard Area: Language Development **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Standard 1: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Structural features of language**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Standard 2: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Theories and developmental stages of language acquisition**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Standard 3: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Language and the brain**

=__Key Terms__= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">cognition <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Concept prototype <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Algorithm heuristic <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Insight creativity <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Confirmation bias fixation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mental set functional fixedness <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Overconfidence representativeness heuristic <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Availability heuristic belief perseverance <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Intuition framing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Language phoneme <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Morpheme grammar <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Semantics syntax <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Babbling stage one-word stage <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Two-word stage telegraphic speech <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Linguistic determinism

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=__Thinking__=

- heuristics



One Minute Brain Teasers

Can you solve these visual thinking problems?

The Tower of Hanoi puzzle

=__Language__=

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Watch Genie: Secrets of a Wild Child, answer and discuss questions (applies to language acquisition, conditional learning, nature vs. nurture, social isolation, brain science, sleep study, ethics, research, critical learning period of development). Connect to unit 1 standards

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=**__Problem Solving__**=

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 * __Functional Fixedness - use of a paperclip?__**

McGyver Mastercard
In this Mastercard commercial from the “Priceless” campaign, action television character MacGyver escapes using a car air freshener. He uses a tube sock to slide down a line, and starts a stalled truck with a paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray, and turkey baster. How do the actions of television character MacGyver relate to the concept of functional fixedness?

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Koko the talking gorilla media type="youtube" key="qhBArh9NnFE" width="420" height="315"

Teenage with Broca's aphasia media type="custom" key="12065629"

Wernicke's Aphasia media type="custom" key="12065631"

Broca's Aphasia media type="custom" key="12065635"

Ali G interviews Noam Chomsky media type="custom" key="12065643"

Gnome Chomsky the Garden Noam

=__Extra Credit__=

PsychSim: My Head is Spinning


 * Create three multiple choice items to assess understanding of three different concepts in this unit
 * Do three "blank cartoons" illustrating different concepts from this unit
 * Create one cartoon of your own that demonstrates a concept in this unit