Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Module Identifier
PS20420
Module Title
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Academic Year
2008/2009
Co-ordinator
Semester
Intended for use in future years
Co-Requisite
PS20220
Co-Requisite
PS20120
Co-Requisite
PS20620
Co-Requisite
PS20320
Co-Requisite
PS20520
Pre-Requisite
PS11220

Course Delivery

 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Aims

Cognitive psychology has become a dominant paradigm in psychology with a wide reach into diverse areas of research into human information processing. The delivery of the subject at honours level is a core requirement both the British Psychological Society and the QAA Benchmark for Psychology.

Brief description

This module examines the main conceptual issues of concern to an understanding of a wide range of cognitive processes. Students will develop an understanding of the main areas of the discipline such as attention, perception and memory together with more applied aspects of human function including thinking and reasoning and the cognitive, biological and developmental aspects of language.

Content

HOW DO WE SEE?
• Attention
• Perception
• Imagery
• Categorisation
HOW DO WE REMEMBER?
• Memory
• Language
HOW DO WE THINK?
• Reasoning
• Problem Solving
• Judgement and decision making
• Intelligence, including animal and artificial
• Cross-Cultural Cognition
• Emotion and Cognition

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 5