Course Description
History of cognitive psychology and the basic cognitive processes involved in attention, memory, knowledge representation, information processing, and problem solving.
Athena Title
COGNITIVE PSYCH
Equivalent Courses
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)
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
Syllabus