Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology is used throughout the entire range of human knowledge, perception, activity, speech processing, problem solving and thinking about learning and memory. The course will give students knowledge of the most important concepts, themes, problems and empirical research in modern cognitive theory as it concerns how we receive, interpret, edit, use and save information. The course will deal with the study of both general traits and individual differences.

By the completion of the course the student will be able to :

·       Describe the historical development of cognitive psychology.

·       Recognize and explain major terms and concepts in cognitive psychology  (including but not limited to perception, attention, memory, knowledge, imagery, language, problem solving, and reasoning and decision making).

·       Explain how different methods of cognitive research can be used as tools to understand mental processes

·       Describe the working of basic cognitive functions from an information processing perspective

·       Identify and explain standard methodological approaches used in the study of human cognition and cognitive neuroscience.