PSC100 - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Recent Episodes
Victoria Cross
Introduction to human information processing, mental representation and transformation, imagery, attention, memory, language processing, concept formation, problem solving, and computer simulation.
Recorded Summer Session 2011
Decision making theories. Approaches to understanding how we make decisions. Heuristics that affect our decisions. Course summary.
Representation of visual information. Functional Equivalency hypothesis. Dual code theory. Propositional code theory.
Encoding, storage and retrieval. Visual, auditory and semantic codes. Position effects and interference
Explicit: semantic and episodic memories. Implicit: procedural and habit memories. Amnesias
Methods used to measure memory. Implict and Explicit memory. Information processing approach: Sensory registers, short-term memory. Working Memory
Preconscious and conscious attention. Search and vigilance. Signal detection theory. Divided attention
Sensation and perception. Figure-ground. Perceptual constancies. Depth perception. Top-down and bottom-up processing.