COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

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Prerequisite: PSY 101 with a minimum grade of C. Introduction to the mind and thinking from a cognitive psychology viewpoint. Classic and contemporary research examining perception, attention, memory processes and structures, imagery, language processing, problem-solving and creativity, and decision-making. Theories of cognition based on information-processing, embodied cognition, and neural circuits and processing in the brain. Offered Every Semester.