CW for Friday, February 26th: It's FRQ Friday! You've seen parts of the first FRQ below. Now that we've finished the cognition chapter, write the full FRQ essay, covering both the components you did last week and the new components. Also, the second one I made up last night. You'll notice it's autobiographical in nature -- and a true story!

If you finish during class, during in the essay. If not, complete it over the weekend and turn it in at the beginning of class Monday.

HW: Begin working on your Chapter 9 project this weekend. We will use Monday as a "workshop" period to work on your individual projects. You can bounce ideas off classmates, get help from me, etc. If anyone is finished by Tuesday, we can begin sharing them, and we'll finish sharing on Wednesday.

FRQs:

1. In a study, researchers use a photograph taken in a public park to examine how people perceive, learn, and remember information. In the photograph, a woman is standing near a man who is seated on a park bench. The woman appears to be shouting at the man.

Participants int he study are exposed to the photograph for ten seconds and then are shown, each for ten seconds, several other photographs of people interacting. When all the photos have been shown, the participants are asked about what they saw in the "public park" photo. A significant number of participants describe the man as being the aggressor in an apparent disagreement with the woman.

Describe how each of the following concepts helps explain the perception of these participants.

A. Schema
B. Retroactive interference
C. Representative heuristic
D. Confirmation bias
E. Framing


2. On her first night of her trip in San Francisco (last night) Mrs. Davies woke up with a start in the middle of the night. She had the sensation of been shaken and heard a loud screeching noise. She immediately determined that she had just experienced a small earthquake, and the loud metallic sound must have been the sound of the metal structures in the building flexing as the ground moved! She woke Mr. Davies up to see if he'd noticed. He hadn't. (Lame.) In the morning, she recounted the experience, in response to which Mr. Davies told her he'd "looked it up" on the Internet that morning, and there had been no quake measured in the San Francisco area. Mrs. Davies remains convinced that Mr. Davies is wrong, and that she did, indeed, experience a baby earthquake.

Identify and apply the following terms to the scenario.

A. Inductive reasoning
B. Availability heuristic
C. Confirmation bias
D. Overconfidence