Cognitive Psychology (Conversion) (Online Distance Learning) EDUC5954

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Education
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course will offer participants an opportunity to develop an understanding of the main theoretical and empirical issues within contemporary cognitive psychology. This course will delve into the inner-workings of the mind, and explore a range of aspects of cognition. Examples of topics that can be explored include: perception, attention, memory, reasoning, and emotion. Interrelationships between different cognitive processes will be investigated, whilst examining atypical functioning in these processes - for example, due to brain trauma or damage.

Timetable

None

Requirements of Entry

At least a 2:1 Honours degree or equivalent

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Assessments

1. Portfolio (100%). Students will complete an online learning portfolio for online submission (approximately 2,500 words).

Course Aims

The aims of this course are to:

- provide participants with an overview of the key principles, theories, methods and research in classical and contemporary cognitive psychology

- promote an understanding of the interrelationships between different aspects of cognition

- encourage critical evaluation of contemporary research on cognition, its development, processes, and atypical functioning.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students should be able to:
- Describe and evaluate the key concepts and main theoretical models relating to perception, attention, memory, language, as well as thinking, reasoning, decision-making, problem-solving, consciousness and metacognition.
- Provide a comparative analysis of competing models of human cognition, including experiment, computer-modelling and neuropsychological approaches.
- Discuss ways in which theory and research within cognitive psychological theory can inform our understanding of how humans think, feel and behave in the real world.
- Identify ethical issues arising in cognitive research
- Identify and apply appropriate research methods within cognitive psychology

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.