Cognitive Psychology

Catalog description

Cognitive psychology exerts astrong influence on psychology. It is the study of the human mind in all its complexity and significance. It includes the study of the human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling, and behaving. Perception, memory, acquisition of knowledge and expertise, comprehension and production of language, problem solving, creativity, decision making, and reasoning are afew categories that are studied in cognitive psychology. Cognitive neuroscience, which is the scientific study of the relationships between cognitive psychology and neuroscience, is also studied in this course.