PSY 161 Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology covers concepts including how people perceive and attend to the environment, how people learn and remember, how they comprehend and produce language, and how they reason and make decisions. Students in this course will explore topics such as learning and memory processes, information-processing, selective attention, perception, memory storage and retrieval, representation of knowledge, language comprehension and production, thought, and decision making. Throughout the course are emphases on developing an understanding of how cognitive psychologists study the human mind and on appreciating the wonder, complexity, and creativity of the human information processing system. Prerequisites: PSY 1