Cognitive Daily

Teaching Index

Looking for a Cognitive Daily post to enhance your teaching? Below we've indexed some posts into topics that should make it easier to find matches for chapters in introductory psychology textbooks.

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Learning

Classical conditioning

• A video game to increase your self-esteem (Baccus et al., 2004)
• Way to work a room: How fish are like chickadees (Brown et al., 2007)

Neuroscience

Fear and the amygdala

• You may not be able to see fear, but you can still be afraid (Anderson & Phelps, 2000)
• Seeing and awareness, or how fear can bypass the visual system (Morris et al., 1999)
• Amygdala the key to recognizing scary music (Gosselin et al., 2005)

STS and intention

• The STS: A brain region for perceiving the intentions of others (Pelphrey et al., 2004)

Parietal lobe (music and language)

• Can music convey meaning in the same way as language? (Koelsch et al., 2004)

Mirror neurons

• Can mirror neurons tell us if something is alive? (Wheatley et al., 2007)

Being fooled by brain images

• When we see a brain "light up," [most of] our brains shut off (Weisberg et al., 2008)

Drives

Does an animal have to learn that drinking cures being thirsty?

• Learning to be thirsty (Hall et al., 2000)

What causes humans to begin and end a meal?

• How do we know when we're hungry? (Rozin et al., 1998)

What makes some foods disgusting?

• And now for something completely different: What makes foods disgusting? (Martins & Pliner, 2006)

Does quality of sleep correlate with social aspects of our lives?

• Lonely people have less efficient sleep (Cacioppo et al., 2002)

Specific objects, aggression and testosterone (also listed under social development)

• Testosterone and aggression, or what Frank's Red Hot Sauce has to do with handgun violence (Klinesmith et al., 2006)

Sensation and perception (all but vision)

Perceiving tempo

• Some insight into how we decide how fast music should be played (Quinn & Watt, 2006)

Hearing and visual events

• Does sound need to be perfectly synchronized with what we see? (Arrighi et al., 2006)

Tasting wine

• Can anyone learn to taste wine? (Pickering & Robert, 2006)

Smell changing behavior

• Smells Like Clean Spirit (Holland et al., 2005)

Motor control: learning to walk

• What backpack-wearing toddlers can tell us about how kids learn to walk (Garciaguirre et al., 2007)

Vision and attention

Biomechanical motion

• Fun with point-light displays -- and what that says about the visual system (Shipley, 2003)

Children's perception of biomechanical motion

• A boy and his dog (Pavlova et al., 2001)

Do new objects capture our attention?

• Do new objects capture our attention? (Franconeri et al., 2005)
• Is responding to sudden cues automatic? (Santangelo et al., 2007)

Driving safely

• Want to drive safely? Talking to passengers may be okay, but talking on the phone isn't (Drews et al., 2004)
• When the color of your vehicle can mean life or death (Most & Astur, 2007)

Visual search and memory

• We remember color patterns when we don't know we're doing it (Huang, 2006)

Memory

Links between visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop

• Picturing language: Does it help or hinder? (Kaschak et al., 2005)

Childhood amnesia and language

• Why do we forget our childhood? (Simcock & Hayne, 2002)

Role of test-taking on memory

• Does test-taking help students learn? (Carpenter & DeLosh, 2006)

Knowing vs remembering

• What you know, and how it's different from what you remember (Gardiner et al., 2006)

Memory and context

• Perceived moral blame can change the memory of a crime (Pizarro et al., 2006)

Intelligence

Social impacts on school kids performance

• Nice kids become better students (Caprara et al., 2000)
• High IQ: Not as good for you as you thought (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005)

Music and IQ

• Music and IQ (Schellenberg, 2004)
• The Mozart effect: Is it really all about attitude? (Husain et al., 2002)

Expertise

Artists spend more time looking at the whole picture

• Artists look different (Vogt & Magnussen, 2007)

Differences between musicians and nonmusicians

• Non-musicians can identify minor-key tunes, but only when labeled "sad" (Halpern et al., 2008)

Language (developmental)

Infants and the sounds of language

• Infants perceive language sounds differently by age 6 months (Kuhl et al., 1992)

Rate of language learning

• Why do some babies talk sooner than others? (Tsao et al., 2004)
• Using international adoptions to understand how kids learn language (Snedeker et al., 2007)

Toddlers and perceptual restoration

• Do toddlers fill in the gaps when learning language? (Newman, 2006)

Babies and sign language

• Teaching babies sign language may help with learning spoken language (Goodwyn et al., 2000)

Social Development

Role of praise

• What's the best way to praise a child? Be specific. (Cimpian et al., 2007)

Dolls and body image

• What Barbie does for a little girl's body image (Dittmar et al., 2006)

Toy guns and aggression (also listed under drives)

• Testosterone and aggression, or what Frank's Red Hot Sauce has to do with handgun violence (Klinesmith et al., 2006)

Video games and aggression

• Punishing video game violence: Does it reduce aggressive behavior? (Carnagey & Anderson, 2005)
• Violent video games and desensitization (Carnagey et al., 2007)

Video games and personality (also listed under personality)

• "But I don't get mad when I play video games!" (Meier et al., 2006)

Social Psychology

Attitudes: Is forgiving good for your health?

• Is forgiving good for your health? (Witvliet et al., 2001)

When is it okay to lie?

• When is it okay to lie? Teens answer (Perkins & Turiel, 2007)

Complexity of discrimination

• Obesity and discrimination (King et al., 2006)
• "Outing" admired gays and lesbians may decrease prejudice (Dasgupta & Rivera, 2008)

Stereotypes and testing

• When do stereotypes begin to threaten children? (Ambady et al., 2001)
• Learning about stereotypes reduces their impact (Johns et al., 2005)

Obedience and false confessions

• False confessions: Not as rare as you might think (Kassin & Kiechel, 1996)

Videotaped confessions and assumption of guilt

• Coerced confessions: Is videotaping part of the problem, or part of the solution? (Lassiter et al, 2001)
• More on videotaped confessions: Can court procedure mitigate abuse? (Lassiter et al., 2002)

Personality

Cultural variations in emotional reactions to identical situations

• Insight into how children learn cultural values (Cole et al., 2006)

Cheating and free will

• Changing belief in free will can cause students to cheat (Vohs & Schooler, 2008)

Self-control

• Practicing self-control consumes real energy (Gailliot et al., 2007)

Video games and personality (also listed under social development)

• "But I don't get mad when I play video games!" (Meier et al., 2006)