PSYC 363: Cognitive Psychology

Course Description

This course introduces the field of cognitive psychology, which studies human thinking, intelligence, and memory from an information-processing approach. As such, a broad range of topics will be covered (including attention, mental representations, categorization, short and long-term memory, language, reasoning, problem-solving, judgment, and decision making). Major theories of cognition will be evaluated with both behavioral and neuroscientific evidence. This course serves as a starting point for many subsequent in-depth cognitive courses (e.g., Learning and Memory). (YR).