| Course ID: | PSYC 6100. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Cognitive Psychology |
Course
Description: | History of cognitive psychology and the basic cognitive processes involved in attention, memory, knowledge representation, information processing, and problem solving. |
| Oasis Title: | COGNITIVE PSYCH |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in PSYC 6630 |
| Prerequisite: | PSYC 6110 or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | By the end of this course, students should have learned
1. The contemporary information processing framework used in cognitive psychology
2. How experiments are conducted to test models of human information processing
3. How information is attended to, memorized, and retrieved
4. How higher order knowledge structures facilitate everyday life
5. How judgments and decisions are biased and how they are not |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Introduction: History and Conceptualizations
2. Attention
3. Perception
4. Biological bases and Neuropsychology
5. Representations
i) Schemata
ii) Visuospatial and Imagery
iii) Categories
6. Memory
i) STM/LTM Basics
ii) Encoding
iii) Retrieval
iv) Picture memory, distortions, mnemonics, etc.
7. Skill Acquisition
8. Psycholinguisitics I (Sentence, text memory)
9. Psycholinguisitics II
10. Problem Solving
11. Reasoning
12. Judgment and Decision Making
13. Applications and Cognitive Follies |