Core-Cognitive+level+of+analysis+(Paper+1)

=Core: Cognitive level of analysis (Paper 1) =

**Enduring Understanding:**

 * What makes you who you are?
 * Memory influences behavior.
 * Social and cultural factors influence our behavior.

**Essential Questions:**

 * How does our mind organize data?
 * How do cultural, social, and biological factors influence our memory?
 * To what extent are our memories reliable?
 * What methods to psychologists use to study memory?
 * Standards:**
 * Cognitive level of analysis


 * Learning outcomes:**


 * 1) Outline the principles that define the cognitive level of analysis
 * 2) Explain how the principles that define the cognitive level of analysis may be demonstrated in research
 * 3) Discuss how and why particular research methods are used by cognitive researchers
 * 4) Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies at the CLA
 * 5) Evaluate schema theory with reference to research studies
 * 6) Evaluate two models or theories of one cognitive process with reference to research studies
 * 7) Explain how biological factors may affect one cognitive process
 * 8) Discuss how social or cultural factors affect one cognitive process
 * 9) Evaluate the extent to which a cognitive process is reliable
 * 10) Explain the use of technology in investigating cognitive processes
 * 11) Evaluate the extent to which cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion
 * 12) Evaluate one theory of how emotions may affect one cognitive process


 * Knowledge and Skills**
 * Students will know
 * the three principles-mental representations guide behavior, mental processes can be studied scientifically, and cognitive processes are influenced by social and cultural factors.
 * the experimental research methodology and the six ethical guidelines.
 * the schema theory
 * models of memory-multi-store model and the working memory model
 * how brain damge affects the cognitive process-Clive Wearing
 * cognitive processes such as memory affect education
 * how reliable is memory and eyewitness testimony-Loftus
 * how MRI and fMRI increase understanding of cognitive processes
 * to what extent cognitive and biological factors interact with emotion-state dependent memory


 * ESLR Focus**
 * Critical Self-Directed Thinkers __X___
 * Effective Communicators ___X___
 * Empowered 21st Century Learners ___X___
 * Responsible Global Leaders ___X____

Three areas for in-depth study are linked below

Cognitive level of analysis-cognitive processes Cognitive level of analysis-cognition and emotion An integrative look at happiness Command Term question development for CLA

**Links to TOK:** Reflections

 * ======How does your culture define happiness?======
 * ======Do you think that people in your culture are happy? (Crane and Hannibal)======

**IB Learner learner profile:** Knowledgeable

 * They explore concepts, ideas, and issues that have local and global significance. In doing so, they acquire in-depth knowledge and develop understanding across a broad and balanced range of disciplines.

**Activities:**

 * Debate
 * Psych brief
 * Wiki page creation

**Assessment:**
Formative Summative
 * SAQ practice
 * Precis
 * Peer editing using google docs
 * Psych brief
 * In class essay
 * SAQ exam

**Resources:**

 * ======Oxford Revision Guides AS & A Level Psychology Through Diagrams======
 * Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Loftus: Thanks for the Memories
 * You tube clips- Loftus:Eyewitness testimony, Clive Wearing:Memory
 * DVD: Discovering Psychology (Memory)
 * Psychology-Course Companion- Crane and Hannibal
 * Reflections:**