Chapter 9:Cognition
Cognition: Thinking & Language
Thinking
Mission- Critical: an interactive tutorial for critical thinking that provides valuable information on the nature and analysis of arguments.
Judgment and Decision-Making Experiments: links to a series of online experiments and information on how people make decisions.
Language
Animal Language Article - a discussion of "apes, language and the human mind", an article on whether or not chimps like Washoe really have learned language.
Exploring Further
CogLab: a cognitive psychology on-line laboratory with applications to perception, learning, memory, language and neurocognition. You will need a password from your Cognitive Psychology instructor for many of these labs.