Cognition

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction into prominent theories and research in cognitive psychology. Students will learn about (a) ways in which the mind and brain organize the chaotic world in which we live, (b) how the separate but interrelated processes of attention, perception, memory, and visual imagery work together to produce everyday phenomena like knowledge, reasoning, problem-solving, and language, (c) the complexities of cognition that underlie all of our daily interactions, and (d) ways to effectively apply cognitive psychological principles to the benefit of their own lives and the lives of those they interact with now and in the future.