Cognitive Science 0136 - Cognitive Psychology

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to human cognition or the scientific study of the mind. We will take an information processing view of psychological functions. Thus we will spend much of our time discussing information, in the form of mental representations, and how this information is transformed in the mind. We will examine how perceptual information enters the mind, how attention is used to select from the array of available incoming sensory information, how knowledge is encoded, stored in and retrieved from memory, how information is conveyed to others via language, and how information is used in reasoning and decision making. Students will be expected to read and critically analyze articles from the professional scientific literature.

Mind, Brain, and Information Writing and Research In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, research.