AREAS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
 Psychology
 Linguistics
 Philosophy (of mind and language)
 Neuroscience
 Artificial Intelligence
 (Anthropology, Sociology)


TOPICS (not an exhaustive list):
 Memory: WM (working memory, information being used in current activity)
         STM (short-term memory, what is easily recalled up to roughly a minute
              after presentation, without rehearsal and in spite of distraction)
         LTM (long-term memory, what is remembered for a lifetime)
         ITM (intermediate-term memory, things remembered well beyond
              a minute but not necessarily forever)
         semantic memory (general facts)
         episodic/experiential memory (personal experiences)
         procedural memory (skills, how-to)
         sensory/perceptual memory (the actual sensation/look/taste/feel/sound of a percept:
                                    iconic/visual, echoic/auditory, etc)
    People vary a lot in details (time, amount, theme, etc). But all of us have these 
    distinct types. Not known (at all) how the brain does this. But deficits occur, eg 
    transfer from ITM to LTM can be shut off by damage to hippocampus.

 Perception
 Concepts/categories
 Reasoning (deeply based on concepts and categories)
 Learning
 Attention
 Development 
	appearance-reality distinction
		red-car: 
		 http://www.intropsych.com/ch10_development/appearance_vs_reality.html
		Smarties and Sally-Anne expts: 
		 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jSdOQQpv0


MORE FAMOUS EXPERIMENTS

 Cognitive Psychology: The Wason Selection Task. Cards are known to
 have either an A or B on one side, and a 1 or 2 on the other. Several
 are placed one-side up on a table. Subjects are asked which cards must
 be turned over, to verify whether this rule is correct: if a card has
 an A on one side, then it must have a 1 on the other. People tend not
 to do well on this task, which was surprising when first discovered. 
 Later variations showed the people do much better when the rule is
 not abstract and unrelated to life, but is based on a comprehensible
 social obligation, such as the amount of postage needed on certain
 kinds of mail, or the age at which one may drink. It seems that our
 reasoning is significantly affected by whether the topic concretely
 matters to issues of trust/cooperation, etc.

 Social Psychology

   Milgram shock experiments: illustrates pull of obedience to
      authority; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

   Zimbardo prison-role experiemnt: illustrates power of social role;
      see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

   Asch peer-pressure experiment: illustrates the power of conformity;
      see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments