Introduction To Course: CGSC 1001 Mysteries of The Mind by Jim Davies

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CGSC 1001
Mysteries of the Mind
by Jim Davies
[email protected] 1
The Point of the Course
 Shake
 To fascinate you with minds, how they work, and how
they are studied with the various methods in cognitive
science.
 The course is supposed to make you want to learn more.
Hopefully,
this course will make you
look differently at almost
everything.
 Features TED talks and
demonstrations.
 It’s fun.
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Comments and Discussion Welcome!
 Twitter hashtag #CGSC1001 , you can link to
me @drjimdavies
 Discussion board: Please post questions to the
discussion board on cuLearn.
 There are too many students to handle
questions through email.
Other students are also
encouraged to answer
questions.
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In Person or Online students
 Students in the A or B section
are in the classroom, and
students in the T or V section
are the online students.
 If you’re an engineering
student, you can’t get credit
for this course.
 Talk to John Tracey on the
22nd floor of Dunton Tower if
you need an override, or
[email protected] 4
Online Syllabus and Lecture Slides
 Available at:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6kg5bn2i3j6dym
9/PA3QtfKpPY
• www.jimdavies.org/classes
 Email me at
[email protected] if you
wish to be a volunteer
notetaker for this class.
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You may record the lectures
 But please don’t share with anybody who isn’t
a student in this class with you.
 Livescribe pen (about $200 USD)
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Evaluation
 This course has over 1000 students in it.
 As such, the grades will be based on multiple-
choice tests.
 About 10% of people fail
 Grades Break Down
• 20% each of four quizzes
• 20% Essay
• Extra Credit 4% for experiments
• And for CSAS incentive program
 I’ll talk about each.
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Quizzes
 4 quizzes of multiple-choice questions
 The readings are only there to help you
understand the lectures.

 Questions will be from the
lectures and videos linked

to in the lectures.
 So though I do not take
attendance, you are likely to

miss most of the test
information if you don’t
watch the lectures. 8
Quizzes
 Quizzes are cumulative
 You must write them alone, and not
communicate with anyone with it or about it.
 Quizzes are “open book”
 30 questions
 36 minutes
 No screenshots
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Writing the Quiz
 Link from cuLearn
 36 minutes, can’t go past the hour
 Can’t see questions at the beginning
 Can’t go back to previous questions
 TAs can go over your quiz
 You may write it at one of
2 designated times
 Deferral declaration
 PMC accommodations
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Two kinds of Essay
 Choose one
• An essay relating a choice book to a lecture, or
• Write a term paper about a particular cognitive science
topic
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Essay
 Explain something in the lecture with help
from a book, or something in a book with help
from a lecture.
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Essay
 Explain something in the lecture with help
from a book, or something in a book with help
from a lecture.
 Point is to explain, not argue anything
• Not a 5 paragraph essay
• First person okay, but the
essay is not about you
• Read the whole book, not
just the first chapter
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Essay
 Can only be about one topic (not chapter)
 Supplemental research is fine, but it must include
the book and at least one lecture
 Citation included in word count
 More than one lecture okay
 See the rubric
 Can use future lectures
 Any citation method fine
 Don’t need to cite book
• Don’t cite lectures either
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Essay
 You may only submit one essay
 You may read all of the books, but essay needs
to be about only one book
 No deferrals on essays, so get it done early
 Examples of good essays
• in the dropbox
 Grade each other’s!
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Term Paper
 Write an essay about a cognitive science topic
(you must pick one from the syllabus)
 Write it as though it were an encyclopedia
entry
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Use the cloud to save your work
 Everything you work on at school should be
saved to the cloud.
 I will not accept “my hard drive crashed”
 Use this link to download dropbox, free
 https://db.tt/54zd7GXs
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 SONA is software that
coordinates experiments with SONA
participants like you
 Participating in experiments
can get you extra credit
 CogSci has a separate SONA
 Psych has its own. You can’t
get credit for this class through
the Psych SONA.
 For SONA questions, contact
the administrator in the CogSci
department. Instructions are in
the syllabus under TAs.
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 Information for Students about the Incentive Program.
 This course has been registered in the Incentive Program
offered through the Centre for Student Academic Support

(CSAS). CSAS Learning Support Workshops are designed
CSAS
to help students cultivate and refine their academic skills
for a university environment.
 To see the complete Learning Support Workshop schedule,
please visit mySuccess via Carleton Central. You can also

view your CSAS Workshop attendance history at any time
by logging into mySuccess.
 In addition to the CSAS Learning Support Workshops
hosted on campus, CSAS offers several online workshops.

If you are interested in participating in an online workshop,
you can enroll through the CSAS website: carleton.ca/csas.
Please also remember to review the Incentive Program
participation policies here:
carleton.ca/csas/incentive-program/.
 If you have any questions related to the Incentive Program
or the Learning Support Workshops, please contact the

Centre for Student Academic Support at [email protected]
or 613-520-3822
 Workshops taken in previous semesters will not count for
extra credit for this semester.

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Disabilities
 If you have (or think you have) a disability,
you might want to contact the Paul Menton
Centre.
 They are backed up, so book early.
If you get an accommodation, they will tell
you have should meet with your instructor.
If your accommodation is just more time, or
something simple, you don’t need to meet
with me.
Please direct questions to the TA in charge of
PMC issues, as indicated on the syllabus.
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Why I Love Cognitive Science
 Multiple disciplines
 Likely to see a revolution in our lifetimes
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The Cognitive Science Major
 Carleton.ca/cognitivescience/
 Broad approaches
 Faculty with great teaching evaluations
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The Instructor
 Jim Davies
 2208 Dunton Tower
 [email protected]
 Interested in human
imagination and how we
can replicate that on
computers.
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 I co-host a podcast with Carleton Neuroscientist Kim Hellemans
 http://www.mindingthebrainpodcast.com/
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understand the lectures.

lectures and videos linked

attendance, you are likely to

offered through the Centre for Student Academic Support

please visit mySuccess via Carleton Central. You can also

hosted on campus, CSAS offers several online workshops.

or the Learning Support Workshops, please contact the

extra credit for this semester.

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