You will earn credit for completing the assignments described below. As you can see, you will do three exercises. You will report on each exercise by writing an essay. These exercises are the most important element of your performance in the class.You will have one week to complete the first exercise and two weeks to work on the other three exercises. Spread your effort over the available time. The general theme of each exercise is given below. The specific exercise instructions will be posted when the exercise is presented in class. Please read the instructions carefully as soon as they are posted.

The Assignments

In order to help you make proper citations to the work of other authors in your essays, you will take a brief on-line tutorial concerning plagiarism. I know that some of you have taken this tutorial before. If so, you know that it only takes a few minutes, so TAKE IT AGAIN.

Go to the Social Sciences & Humanities Library webpage at http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/
On the right-hand side of the page under LEARN, click on Guides for Courses & Subjects.
On the Course & Subject Guides page, click on the drop-down menu for Cognitive Science and click on our class title. This will take you to the Preventing Plagiarism tutorial. When you reach the Quiz section in the tutorial you will see a link specifically for our class: Plagiarism Quiz for Cognitive Science 102A. Be sure to take the quiz and to identify yourself properly to the site. Othewise, you WILL NOT receive credit for the assignment.

Explore and document the structure of and relations among physical, social and conceptual spaces in a common activity system..

The final examination will cover all of the material in the course. Emphasis will be placed on Theme 4: Embodiment and the Extended Mind hypothesis. The exam will consist of multiple choice questions and short-essay questions.