GEN1000 Perspectives on General Education
COM3307 Cognition in Everyday Life
PSY2006 Cognitive Psychology
This course aims to understand the interactions of human cognition and the environment. It is a broad discipline that helps students to understand the internal processes involved in making sense of the environment and the appropriate actions undertaken to respond to the environment. This course will also introduce cognitive neuroscience alongside with behavior to give a richer picture for students to understand human cognition, and how our brain shapes our everyday life activity. Through this module, students will learn about what makes them do what they are doing.
Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:
a. comprehend the basic philosophy, principles, approaches and methods of cognitive psychology;
b. Understand the history of cognitive psychology, and identify the academic fields and other subdisciplines of psychology in which cognitive psychology is tied to;
c. develop insights into their own and others’ behaviour and mental processes and apply effective strategies to self-management and selfimprovement;
d. apply their psychological knowledge and skills in a variety of everyday life settings;
e. critically evaluate, compare and contrast the theories associated with cognitive psychology
1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
1.1 What is Cognitive Psychology?
1.2 Different disciplines of Cognitive Psychology
1.3 Comparison of major research approaches
1.4 How cognition affects our everyday life
2. Human brain
2.1 Basic human brain anatomy
2.2 Basic human brain functions
2.3 The nervous system
3. Perception
3.1 Visual perception
3.2 Object and face recognition
3.3 Disorder
4. Attention
4.1 Mechanisms of attention
4.2 Visual attention
4.3 Change blindness
4.4 Auditory attention
4.5 Divided -attention
4.6 Disorder
5. Learning
5.1 Types of learning
5.2 Classical conditioning
5.3 Implicit learning
6. Memory
6.1 Basics of the memory system
6.2 Working memory
6.3 Short -term memory
6.4 Long -term memory
6.5 Memory processes
6.6 Disorder of memory: Forgetting and Amnesia
6.7 Other memories
7. Language
7.1 Speech perception
7.2 Language comprehension
7.3 Language production
7.4 Disorder
8. Problem – solving and decision – making
8.1 Problem solving
8.2 Reasoning
8.3 Decision -making
9. Emotion
9.1 Theories of emotion
9.2 Cognition and emotion
9.3 Disorder
1. Discussion (15%)
2. Exercises and problems (15%)
3. Mid-term test (20%)
4. Final examination (50%)
*1. Goldstein, E. B. (2019). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience (with CogLab) (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.
2. Farmer, T. A., & Matlin, M. W. (2019). Cognition (10th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
3. Galotti, K. M. (2017). Cognitive psychology in and out of the laboratory (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
4. Reisberg, D. (Ed.). (2013). The Oxford handbook of cognitive psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
5. Reisberg, D. (2018). Cognition: Exploring the science of the mind (7th ed.). New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
