Return midterms and review scores Introduction to Thinking & Language Problem Solving Lab Homework: Reading Quiz TOMORROW!

Agenda – Tuesday, March 18th

Fifth Hour:◦ Mean before curve: 40.7/55◦ Median: 40/55◦ Mode: 46/55◦ Mean after five point curve: 45.74/55

Seventh Hour:◦ Mean before curve: 39.9◦ Median before curve: 41◦ Mode before curve: 45◦ Mean after five point curve: 44.91

Midterm Scores

Cognition: All the mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating◦ This is why memory is part of this unit!

Large part of this unit: PROBLEM SOLVING

Thinking & Language

A man left home one morning. He turned right and ran straight ahead. Then he turned left. After a while, he turned left again, running faster than ever. Then he turned left once more and decided to go home. In the distance he could see two masked men waiting for him. Who were they?!

Number 1

The Umpire and Catcher

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

Number 2

The letter

Using the items provided, you and your partner must make the record play a song

You may NOT use anything that you personally brought to class, but you may manipulate the items to your benefit

Your Task…

Thinking & Language Reading Quiz Cognition Examples Record Lab FRQ Homework: NONE

Agenda – Wednesday, March 19th

Number 1 The maker doesn’t want it, the buyer

doesn’t use it, and the user doesn’t see it. What is it?

A coffin

Number 2 What number is next in the series? 10, 4, 3, 11, 15, …..

a) 14b) 1c) 17d) 12

14 When spelled out, each number in the

series is longer than the previous number by one letter.

Number 3

Imagine 6 glasses in a row, the first three are full of water, the second three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so that the full and empty glasses alternate?

Pour the second glass contents into the 5th

Number 4 What is so unusual about the sentence

below?

“Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz”

It has every letter of the alphabet

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

Number 5 How can you physically stand behind your

father while he is standing behind you?

Stand back to back

Any mental shortcut that allows for easier problem solving and quicker judgment

Example: How can you use heuristics to rearrange these letters?

E U E Q N

Heuristics

Heuristic: You know the Q and U go together because of something you’ve already learned and stored in your mind

Algorithm: Try all 60 combinations of the letters to find a “correct” one

EUENQ, EUNEQ, EUQNE, EUNQU, etc.

Heuristic

22

Unscramble These Words

nelinenscesdlenlecamslfaldlchineque

raspeklstanolemdlscohsflenaorgegsta

23

Unscrambled Wordslinenscenelendscamelfallschildqueen

pearstalksmeloncoldsshelfgroangates

The algorithm you used to solve the first column probably kept you from seeing the multiple

solutions for the words in the second column

Write down the top ten nations where journalists are most likely to be killed for reporting factual news over the last 20 years

http://cpj.org/killed/

Availability Heuristic: Thinking shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind. You use the more frequently discussed examples

Heuristics

Record Lab FRQ Language background information

◦ Breakdown of language◦ TED Talk

Homework: NONE

Agenda – Thursday, March 20th

Noam Chomsky Benjamin Whorf Paul Broca Wernicke (Karl Wernicke)

Yellow Sheet

With your group members, determine how each assigned concept from was used to solve the problem. (Think of this as an FRQ)◦ Algorithm◦ Functional fixedness◦ Confirmation Bias◦ Hindsight Bias◦ Divergent Thinking◦ Observational Learning◦ Availability heuristic

Record Lab

Can we have thoughts without language? If so, what would it look like?

Language Importance

Phonemes

Morphemes

Text TwistUtilizing common Phonemes and Morphemes.

According to B.F. Skinner, children learn words and language through reinforcement, observation, and imitation

According to Noam Chomsky, people are born with the natural ability to communicate and understand a language ◦ Universal Grammar

Nature or Nurture?

Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis(Benjamin Whorf)

Language influences the way we think about the world. Illegal Immigrantsvs.Undocumented Immigrants

Entitlement Systemvs.

Social Safety Net

21 Emotions that we don’t have in English

25 Words w/ no translation

Freedom Fightervs.

Terrorist

Language & Savings Behavior

TED Talk