Course Prefix and Number: PSY 460, Cognitive Psychology
Learner Outcomes
Appropriately use the terminology,
describe the history, appropriately use the
methods, theories and research findings of
cognitive psychology.
Concepts and research areas may include:
-Diversity as it relates to cognitive
psychology
-Reductionism and how a science of mind
is possible
-Brain structures related to cognitive
processing
-The information processing model,
including attention, perception, encoding,
storage and retrieval
-Parallel distributed processing
-memory constructs
-knowledge representation processes
-language
-biases in thinking
-cognitive assumptions
-perceptual organizations
-problem solving
-cognitive development
-sensory analysis
-learning
Perform the skills of synthesizing,
organizing, and analyzing the literature in a
research topic, conducting a research
experiment in cognitive psychology and
reporting research in APA style
Assessment options
In-class examinations over assigned
readings, lecture presentations and
discussions in class or on Blackboard
Carry out a literature review, individual
experiment, group experiment, or CogLab
computer demonstration of cognitive
psychological principles. Report the results
in APA style.