- PSY 225 – Cognitive Psychology (3)
- Prerequisite: PSY 101. Cognitive psychology is the study of what we know, how we know it, and how that knowledge is acquired, organized, accessed, and used. This course will survey the following: a historical perspective on the field of studying cognition; the research methods of contemporary cognitive psychology; attention; perception; memory; the structure of knowledge; individual differences in intelligence; our understanding of language; reasoning; problem-solving; and cognitive neuroscience. While the main purpose of this course is to introduce you to the scientific study of the mind, you will also begin to understand the central role that cognition plays in our everyday lives.