Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
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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
• 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