Jeffrey K. Bye

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Date registered: September 14, 2011

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“Mental Notes: Music, Cognition, & the Brain” Symposium – May 23, 5pm — May 17, 2013
Classic Psychology Experiments: Wason Selection Task (Part I) — October 7, 2012
“Psychology on the Big Screen” Panel, May 25th — May 21, 2012
Quick Tips for Becoming Poll-Literate — March 18, 2012
Music Cognition — September 2, 2011

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“Mental Notes: Music, Cognition, & the Brain” Symposium – May 23, 5pm

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Cognition and Perception, Interdisciplinary, Neuroscience

May 17, 2013

by Jeffrey K. Bye

Psychology in Action is proud to announce the second annual Psychology Interdisciplinary Events symposium, Thursday, May 25th, 2012, from 5 to 7pm in UCLA’s CNSI Auditorium. The discussion will focus on the intersection of music, psychology, and neuroscience. The event is completely FREE and open to the general public! We hope to see you there! Featuring – Dr. …

Tags: cognitive psychology, David Rosenboom, discussion, event, Martin Monti, Mental Notes, music, music and the brain, music cognition, music perception, music psychology, neuroscience, neuroscience of music, outreach, panel, Petr Janata, Psychology Interdisciplinary Events, Psychology of music, Sam Torrisi, Sarah Creel, symposium

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Classic Psychology Experiments: Wason Selection Task (Part I)

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Classic Psychology Experiments, Cognition and Perception, Interdisciplinary, Social Psychology

October 7, 2012

by Jeffrey K. Bye

This post is the first of three on the Wason selection task, and part of our new ongoing series exploring classic experiments in the history of psychological research. In the 1960s, Peter Cathcart Wason introduced a test of logical reasoning that he termed the selection task (1966, 1968, 1969a, 1969b). Almost fifty years later, the …

Tags: Classic Psychology Experiments, cognitive psychology, conditional, content effect, deontic logic, formal logic, logical reasoning, modus ponens, modus tollens, obligation, permission, Peter Wason, Philip Johnson-Laird, reasoning, schema, selection task, semantics, Wason selection task

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“Psychology on the Big Screen” Panel, May 25th

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Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, Health Psychology and Public Health, Interdisciplinary

May 21, 2012

by Jeffrey K. Bye

Poster for 'Psychology on the Big Screen' Panel

Psychology in Action is proud to announce a panel discussion in collaboration with the UCLA Theater, Film, and Television Department to take place on Friday, May 25th, 2012, from 4 to 6pm in UCLA’s Bridges Theater (Melnitz 1409). The discussion will focus on the intersection of the science of mental illness and the art of filmmaking. The event …

Tags: abnormal psychology, cinema, clinical psychology, event, film, filmmakers, Media, mental illness, Movies, panel discussion, psychiatry, psychology

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Quick Tips for Becoming Poll-Literate

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Government and Policy, Political Psychology, Statistics for Social Science

March 18, 2012

by Jeffrey K. Bye

If you’re a political junkie like me, or just a casual election-follower, you’ve probably read a few polls that made your jaw drop. Here are some things a skeptical poll consumer should look for before letting their jaw fully drop. Selection Bias One of the first questions you should ask yourself when you read …

Tags: bias, cell phone bias, election, framing effects, landline bias, opinion polls, political psychology, Politics, poll bias, polling, polls, public affairs act, public opinion, question order effect, selection bias, survey, voting

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Music Cognition

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Cognition and Perception, General Psychology

September 2, 2011

by Jeffrey K. Bye

One of the most fascinating and quickly growing subareas of psychology and the cognitive sciences is music cognition, the interdisciplinary study of how the brain processes and perceives music. Music cognition is driven primarily by the perception of tempo and pitch, as well as the important concept of expectation. Download article as PDF

Tags: audition, cognition, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, daniel levitin, diana deutsch, experience, melody, music, music cognition, music psychology, musical, oliver sacks, perception, pitch, rhythm, tempo

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What is Cognitive Science?

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General Psychology

April 7, 2011

by Jeffrey K. Bye

This article originally appeared in the Psychology in Action Newsletter (Issue 5, Part B). If you’re in an introductory psychology class, you’ve probably learned about Freud, Skinner, and Piaget, who were profoundly important in the foundations of psychology. But you probably haven’t heard much about Noam Chomsky or Allen Newell, although both of these people …

Tags: cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, linguistics

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Desirable Difficulties in Math Teaching

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Education

February 14, 2011

by Jeffrey K. Bye

Continuing in the spirit of my last post, which overviewed the desirable difficulties literature, and Carole Yue’s recent post on how desirable difficulties can improve induction tasks, today I’m highlighting some recent research on applying such difficulties to math learning and practice. As a quick recap, desirable difficulties are adjustments to teaching that slow down …

Tags: classroom, classroom teaching, cognitive psychology, desirable difficulties, doug rohrer, Education, education reform, educators, instruction, interleaved practice, interleaving, kelli taylor, learn, learning, learning and memory, long-term retention, math education, math learning, math pedagogy, math problems, math teaching, math textbooks, mathematics, memory, psychology, reform, retrieval practice, robert bjork, spaced learning, spacing effect, students, teachers, teaching, tim rickard

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Desirable Difficulties in the Classroom

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Education

January 4, 2011

by Jeffrey K. Bye

Over the last couple of decades, learning and memory researchers have become increasingly interested in bringing scientific findings out of the lab and into the classroom, where they can be implemented into teaching methods to produce more efficient and effective learning. In a nation mired in an educational crisis, there’s never been a better time …

Tags: children, classroom, classroom teaching, cognition, cognitive psychology, desirable difficulties, ebbinghaus, Education, education reform, education system, educational, educators, elizabeth bjork, forgetting curve, instruction, instructor, knowledge, learn, learning, learning and memory, learning curve, long-term retention, memory, nate kornell, psychology, reform, retrieval practice, robert bjork, science, spaced learning, spacing effect, students, teachers, teaching, test, testing, testing effect

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“Mental Notes: Music, Cognition, & the Brain” Symposium – May 23, 5pm

“Psychology on the Big Screen” Panel, May 25th

Music Cognition

What is Cognitive Science?

Desirable Difficulties in Math Teaching

Desirable Difficulties in the Classroom

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