APPsychology+Chapter+10+Thinking+and+Cognition

As Jania requested, here's the "Who Owns the Fish" problem solving activity.

AP Psychology Chapter 10 Thinking Name _ **Who Owns The Fish? ** There are five houses in a row and in five different colors. In each house lives a person from a different country. Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain pet. No two people drink the same drink, play the same sport, or keep the same pet. __Your job is to find out__ __and explain__ “Who Owns The Fish?” Show ALL of your work in order to get any credit.   
 * The Brit lives in a red house
 * The Swede keeps dogs
 * The Dane drinks tea
 * The green house is on the left of the white house
 * The green house owner drinks coffee
 * The person who plays polo rears birds
 * The owner of the yellow house plays hockey
 * The man living in the house right in the centre drinks milk
 * The Norwegian lives in the first house
 * The man who plays baseball lives next to the man who keeps cats
 * The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who plays hockey
 * The man who plays billiards drinks beer
 * <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The German plays soccer
 * <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
 * <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The man who plays baseball has a neighbor who drinks water.

You need to read David Premack's "Is Language the Key to Human Intelligence?". You can find it online by clicking onto the link here ([|Premack]). It goes along with the Chomsky idea that language is the key to human intellect. Read it carefully. There will be 3 or 4 questions on the next test that reference it. The other article I need you to read for this chapter comes from my favorite writer Sharon Begley and it entitled "Are We Getting Smarter". It comes from NEWSWEEK magazine, it's a short little article (but pay attention to the "Flynn Effect"), and you can access it by clicking here ([|BEGLEY]).

Questions for the NPR.org podcast of "Multitasking Teens May Be Muddling Their Brains". We will get the podcast on our CFF laptops and then answer these questions. I will ask you to simply copy and paste your answers to these questions into an email and send them to me at wmcnamara@gvsd.org. That way we are saving paper and doing our part to keep things ** green .**

Name _____________________________ Period ___________ Date _______________ AP Psychology Chapter 10 Thinking  **<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Multitasking Teens May Be Muddling Their Brains **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">by  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-underline: none;">[|Jon Hamilton] <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|//Morning Edition//]//<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">, //<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"> October 9, 2008   //<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif';">NPR .org // 1. _________________________is commonly thought to be doing several things at once, but really what it is the ability to shift our focus of attention very rapidly. 2. Researchers, according to the podcast say this is productive/counter-productive (pick one) because _______________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________.     3. Zach Weinberg, a junior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, sits in front of his computer in his family home in suburban Maryland doing homework. What else is he doing at the same time? Give three from the podcast. _________________________________________________________________________________________________    4. Who argues that multi-tasking is a misnomer? __________________________________________________________   5. What is task completion or information retention dependent on according to Meyer? __________________________   6. What analogy does Meyer use when he discusses what is happening to us neurologically during bouts of multi-tasking? __________________________________________________________________________________________________   7. What is spreading activation? ________________________________________________________________________   8. Why does Zach say he multitasks? ___________________________________________________________________   9. What is the role of dopamine?_______________________________________________________________________ 10. What’s the downside of multitasking?________________________________________________________________ 11. Is multi-tasking addictive? Why or why not? ___________________________________________________________   _________________________________________________________________________________________________     12. Why is fighting distraction(s) so hard for the adolescent brain? ____________________________________________     __________________________________________________________________________________________________