This is the introductory course in Cognitive Psychology and aims to:
present information processing theory as the dominant
framework for the study of cognitive functions,
to study the basic cognitive functions (perception, attention and
memory),
to present the main applications of the findings of cognitive
psychology,
the study of the experimental methodology used by cognitive
psychologists, and
to develop students' critical thinking through the discussion of the
most important research publications in the field of cognitive
psychology.
Objectives:
Definition, scope and history of cognitive psychology.
Research methods of cognitive psychology (experimental,
neuroimaging, simulations, artificial intelligence, verbal reports,
etc.).
The physiological basis of cognitive processes.
The theory of information processing. Knowledge and its
representation (semantic representations: semantic features,
semantic networks, propositional, schema, scripts.
Analogical representations: mental images, mental models).
The cognitive functions of attention, perception and memory.
The organization of information in memory.
