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Agenda – Tuesday, March 18 th

Agenda – Tuesday, March 18 th. Return midterms and review scores Introduction to Thinking & Language Problem Solving Lab Homework: Reading Quiz  TOMORROW!. Midterm Scores. Fifth Hour: Mean before curve: 40.7/55 Median: 40/55 Mode: 46/55 Mean after five point curve: 45.74/55

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Agenda – Tuesday, March 18 th

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  1. Agenda – Tuesday, March 18th • Return midterms and review scores • Introduction to Thinking & Language • Problem Solving Lab • Homework: Reading Quiz  TOMORROW!

  2. Midterm Scores • 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

  3. Thinking & Language • 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

  4. Number 1 • 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?!

  5. The Umpire and Catcher

  6. Number 2 • What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

  7. The letter

  8. Your Task… • 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

  9. Agenda – Wednesday, March 19th • Thinking & Language Reading Quiz • Cognition Examples • Record Lab FRQ • Homework: NONE

  10. Number 1 • The maker doesn’t want it, the buyer doesn’t use it, and the user doesn’t see it. What is it?

  11. A coffin

  12. Number 2 • What number is next in the series? • 10, 4, 3, 11, 15, ….. • 14 • 1 • 17 • 12

  13. 14 • When spelled out, each number in the series is longer than the previous number by one letter.

  14. 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?

  15. Pour the second glass contents into the 5th

  16. Number 4 • What is so unusual about the sentence below? • “Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz”

  17. It has every letter of the alphabet • qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

  18. Number 5 • How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?

  19. Stand back to back

  20. Heuristics • 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

  21. Heuristic • 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.

  22. nelin ensce sdlen lecam slfal dlchi neque raspe klsta nolem dlsco hsfle naorg egsta Unscramble These Words

  23. linen scene lends camel falls child queen pears talks melon colds shelf groan gates Unscrambled Words The algorithm you used to solve the first column probably kept you from seeing the multiple solutions for the words in the second column

  24. Heuristics • 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

  25. Agenda – Thursday, March 20th • Record Lab FRQ • Language background information • Breakdown of language • TED Talk • Homework: NONE

  26. Yellow Sheet • Noam Chomsky • Benjamin Whorf • Paul Broca • Wernicke (Karl Wernicke)

  27. Record Lab • 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

  28. Language Importance • Can we have thoughts without language? • If so, what would it look like?

  29. Phonemes

  30. Morphemes

  31. Text Twist Utilizing common Phonemes and Morphemes.

  32. Nature or Nurture? • 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

  33. Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis(Benjamin Whorf) Language influences the way we think about the world. Entitlement System vs. Social Safety Net Illegal Immigrants vs. Undocumented Immigrants 21 Emotions that we don’t have in English 25 Words w/ no translation Freedom Fighter vs. Terrorist

  34. Language & Savings Behavior TED Talk

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