Cognition: Memory, Thinking, and Problem-Solving: Social Studies Unit 5, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Cognition: Memory, Thinking, and Problem-Solving is Unit 5 of Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Part 2) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 12 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 106 pages.

• The multi-store (sensory/STM/LTM) model of memory and encoding-storage-retrieval
• The role of the hippocampus in memory consolidation
• The misinformation effect on eyewitness recall (Loftus)
• Reconstructive memory and the mechanism of the misinformation effect
• Forgetting: interference, decay, and retrieval failure
• Availability heuristic and confirmation bias as distinct but confusable cognitive shortcuts
• Heuristics and biases applied to an unfamiliar decision context
• Expert-novice differences in metacognitive access to procedural knowledge
• The relationship (or lack of it) between confidence and accuracy in recall
• Proof versus suggestive evidence, applied to a classroom demonstration
• Core memory vocabulary: encoding, storage, retrieval, reconsolidation, misinformation effect
• The eyewitness misinformation summative scenario, integrating mechanism and methods judgment

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.