PSYC220

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PSYC220

Cognition PSYC220 SP

Next Offered in 9798 SP

This course introduces and elaborates the core questions of cognitive psychology, which is the subdiscipline that seeks to discover and explain basic processes of human thought. We will first trace the path that shaped the contemporary study of cognition and then go on to discuss how people perceive, process, encode, remember, use and create information in the complex environment about them.

MAJOR READINGS

One major text in COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY,
several papers from research journals.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Several mini-papers (2 pp), two essay examinations, one term paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This is an area course in the Cognitive area. PSYC105 is recommended. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture Fieldwork

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS PSYC

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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Reference:

Rhodes,Gillian; Brake, Susan; and Atkinson, Anthony P., "What's Lost in Inverted Faces?", COGNITION, April 1993, pp. 25-57.

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