Program Overview

Program Overview

The School of Arts and Sciences offers a course in Cognitive Psychology, designated as PSYC 310.

Course Description

This course covers the cognitive processes of attention, pattern recognition, language, comprehension, and thinking, in terms of information acquisition, information retrieval, and forgetting. These processes will be reviewed, in terms of their application to cognitive activities, such as decision making, reasoning, problem solving, and creativity. Emphasis will be placed on the different theories and experimental research designs that can be used to study cognitive processes.

Program Details

• The course is part of the Psychology program.
• The program focuses on the study of cognitive processes and their application to various cognitive activities.
  • Key areas of study include:
    • Attention
    • Pattern recognition
    • Language
    • Comprehension
    • Thinking
  • The program also explores the different theories and experimental research designs used in the field of cognitive psychology.