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.

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Assessments

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

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.

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

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