INF1-CG: Week 5

Tasks

Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:

  • Do Quiz 2, which is due on Tuesday 11 February at 12:00 noon.
  • Attend lectures 12, 13, and 14.
  • Attend your tutorial group. Make sure to first attempt the Questions for Tutorial 4 on your own.
  • Attend one of the drop-in labs.
  • Read the readings for this week.
  • If you need help with the course material, attend one of the office hours.
  • Start preparing for Tutorial 5, which will happen in week 6 (after Flexible Learning Week).
  • Next week is flexible learning week! No lectures, tutorials, labs, or office hours. It’s a great opportunity to catch up with the reading for the course!

Lectures

NoDateTitle
1211 FebCategories
1313 FebJudgement and Decision Making
1414 FebBiases in Human Decision Making

All lectures will be livestreamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.


Readings

The links below direct you to the University Library or to Piazza. You will need to log on to access the full text.

Readings come in two flavours: required and recommended.

Harley 2014The Psychology of Language, Chapter 11, pp319-336Required
Tversky & Kahneman 1981 The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of ChoiceRequired
Kahneman 2011*Thinking, Fast and SlowOptional

*This book is listed here as possible additional reading for students who are fascinated by the content of lectures 14 and 15. It provides a lot more detail, presented for a general audience. Focus on parts 2 and 4.


Assignments

To access the assignments, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.


Quizzes

To access the quizzes, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Gradescope”.


Tutorials

Please attempt to answer the Questions for Tutorial 4. These will be discussed in the tutorial sessions this week.


Labs

Please attend one of the drop-in lab sessions this week. The labs are designed to help with the assignments, and you can ask the lab demonstrator if anything is unclear with Assignment 1.

To access the lab notebooks, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.

 

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