Cognitive Psychology

Catalog description

This course investigates the principal theories and contemporary scientific findings in perception, memory, and cognition which includes sensations, attention, knowledge representation, problem solving, reasoning, language, information processing, decision making, creativity, and intelligence. The course will also focus on disorders of memory, perception, and cognition as well as strategies for improving these processes across development. The neural basis underlying these processes will be emphasized in the context of real-life situations.