Unit+7+-+Cognition

=Unit 7 - Cognition=

__**Primate Language videos**__
The video for "The Mind: Episode 27, Animal Language" that we watched in class can be viewed by following the link below: []

If you find this topic interesting, I've posted some other videos below that you might enjoy:

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Brain Teasers
This link will take you to a site with a bunch of brain teasers to challenge you. Just try not to occupy //all// of your time with them.

**"Crossing the River"**
The classic brain teaser in interactive form to practice your problem solving skills. Can you get all three missionaries and all three cannibals across the river (without anyone being eaten)?

__The Stroop Effect__
This is a classic psychological test that many of you may have seen before. It has implications for a number of different units including this one. In part, it demonstrates the difficulties of divided attention and interference as well as other phenomena. Typically you have experienced that knowing, understanding, and reciting the word and its meaning is more important than the color of the ink. However, suddenly you have to approach reading in an entirely different fashion, which you likely find very difficult to do.

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__**MacGyver - the king of overcoming functional fixedness! :)**__
I know that you guys are a bit too young to remember this show, but this is classic tv cheeziness for my generation. In a desperate situation, MacGyver could somehow find a way to make a bomb out of a piece of chewing gum, a toothpick, and a paperclip. As long as you overlook the fact that most of this wouldn't actually work in real life... it's a fun example of the reverse of functional fixedness.

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