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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PY 201 Cognitive Psychology

This course will address contemporary theories of human information processing. Major topics include attention, mental representations, categorization, perception, short-term and long-term memory, psycholinguistics, reasoning, problem-solving, and decision making. At the completion of this course, students should be able to understand the true breadth of cognitive psychology and the experimental processes that form the foundation of cognitive theories.