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PSY 383 Cognitive Psychology

300 levelSocial Sciences10 topics

PSY 383 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. History and scope of cognitive psychology
  2. Models of cognition and information processing
  3. Perception and visual cognition
  4. Attention
  5. Pattern recognition
  6. Memory systems: sensory, short-term and long-term
  7. Encoding and retrieval
  8. Language and thought
  9. Concept formation and problem solving
  10. Cultural influences on cognition

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History and scope of cognitive psychology

The history and scope of cognitive psychology focus on how the field emerged, what mental processes it studies, and how it differs from earlier approaches to psychology. For exams, you must master the shift from behaviourism to the cognitive revolution, the main processes studied in cognition, and why cognitive psychology remains central to modern research and applied practice.

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