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Oct 31, 2024
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PSYC 203 - Cognitive Psychology 5 CR
Considers human performance from the psychological standpoint. Topics include conditioning, memory and conceptual processing, language, sensation, and perception. May require participation in demonstrations and projects.
Course Outcomes - Trace the history of cognitive psychology and its influence on other fields of psychology.
- Apply critical thinking skills, methods and principles of cognitive psychology research, and cross-cultural influences on cognitive processes to cases of human behavior.
- Apply communication skills using oral and written materials to discuss topics related to human cognition.
- Describe the neural bases of mental processes, and the brain research methods utilized in cognitive psychology.
- Distinguish the processes of sensation and perception, object recognition, and attention.
- Examine the theories and physiological processes of memory encoding, storage and retrieval.
- Recognize the practical applications of cognitive psychology of memory, such as eyewitness testimony and the concept of false memories.
- Describe the theories related to conceptual processing and language, including the neural basis of language, the structure and principles of human language, and language development.
- Apply the principles and applications regarding problem solving, reasoning and decision-making to examples experienced in everyday life.
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