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.

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.