Cognitive Psychology 1
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| PSGY1002 | Psychology | 1 | 20 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- PSGY1002
- School
- Psychology
- Level
- 1
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes: the ways in which we gain information from the world, how that information is represented and transformed as knowledge, how it is sorted and how it is used to direct our attention and behaviour. This is our ability to perceive, comprehend, attend, store, and retrieve information gained from the world. This module will introduce the methods used to investigate cognitive processes, together with summaries of principal findings in the domains of attention, perception, language, memory and thinking.
Target Students
Only available for Psychology and JH students except not available for Year 3 Psychology students.
Assessment
- 25% Coursework 1: 1500 word essay. See moodle for deadline information.
- 75% Exam 1 (2-hour): MCQ exam. 120 Qs. 4 Choices.
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
The module will provide an introduction to the methods used by cognitive psychologists in their investigations of mental processes in humans. A wide range of mental processes will be discussed, with some introductory discussion of how they limit human performance in applied contexts. The mental processes to be discussed include those that support attention, perception, language, memory and thinking processes.Learning Outcomes
At the end of the module a student should: 1) Have an overview of the range of methods used to investigate cognitive processes;
2) Have an understanding of the principal processes that are used to generate mental representations;
3) Have an understanding of how these representations limit our performance;
4) Be able to use evidence from investigations of cognition to explore how our mental processes and mental representations control human behaviour.