Psychology (PSYC) 355

Overview

PSYC 355 introduces students to research and theory in human cognition. Topics covered include an historical review of developments that led to the emergence of cognitive psychology, an overview of perception and attention, a review of basic memory research, practical aspects of memory, and semantic memory, and a survey of the major research issues in psycholinguistics (language comprehension and language production) and thinking (problem solving and decision making).

Outline

Unit 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Unit 2: Perception

Unit 3: Attention and Consciousness

Unit 4: Working Memory

Unit 5: Long-Term Memory

Unit 6: Practical Aspects of Memory

Unit 7: Spatial Cognition

Unit 8: Semantic Memory

Unit 9: Psycholinguistics

Unit 10: Problem Solving

Unit 11: Reasoning and Decision Making

Evaluation

To receive credit for PSYC 355, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the examination. The weighting of assignments is as follows:

Unit Quizzes (4 quizzes)	Research Paper	Final Exam	Total
33%	32%	35%	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.