Cognitive Psychology (4PSYC002W)

This lecture includes an Introduction to Cognitive Psychology as well as its history, definition, examples, and information processing.

This is a specific list including several psychologists and key thinkers and their respective studies making it easy to find empirical studies to use for a certain argument whilst writing an essay.

Covers working memory. Includes the Information processing model, Atkinson & Shiffrin model, the working memory model, the phonological loop, the central executive system, Baddeley's model, long-term memory and forgetting, retrieval, interference, and false memories.

Providing all information about attention. Covers definition, purposes, shifts of attention, selective attention, stages of selection, listening experiments, theories of selective attention (Broadbent, Treisman, Deutch&Deutch), load theory, attended and unattended attention, and divided attention.

A short introduction to all basic information about memory, the types, processing, encoding and retrieval, memory organization, recall and recognition, imagery, and memory effects.

Providing an insight into decision making. Covering framework for studying decision-making, rationality, availability heuristic, anchoring and adjustment, conjunction fallacy, framing, rationality, emotion in decision making, risky decision-making.

Providing insight into the topic of language. Covers definition, diversity, hypothesis, studies on color perception, studies on focal colors, bilingualism, and restricted and elaborated code learning.

Provides the lecture titled Making sense of the world around us. Distinguishes between sensation and perception, covers sensory thresholds, vision, the connection of sensation and perception to the nervous system, explains bottom-up and top-down processing, and illusions.

Provides detailed explanations of associative learning, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning.