PSY350 Cognitive Psychology (3 cr.)

The discipline of cognitive psychology examines how humans perceive, encode, store, transform, retrieve, and use information. This course is designed to introduce the field of cognitive psychology, focusing on both classic and current issues. Topics include attention, perception, multiple memory systems, encoding and retrieval processes, knowledge, and decision making. The course explores both behavioral and neuropsychological approaches to understanding cognition.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Know and explain the basic concepts, phenomena, theories, methods, and research findings in cognition.
2. Identify and compare the research methods and paradigms of cognitive psychology.
3. Understand and explain well-established cognitive theories about attention, memory, comprehension, and decision making.
4. Identify, compare, and integrate the processes involved in various multiple memory systems.
5. Apply the principles of cognitive psychology to real world problems.
6. Understand the ethical aspects of interpreting the research in cognitive psychology.