| CODE | CGS5010 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Memory, Decision Making, Thinking | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Cognitive Science | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit aims to provide grounding in major topics in Cognition. It will begin with a brief historical perspective on how the field of Cognitive Psychology emerged from earlier scientific endeavours and will discuss its particular approach and contribution to Cognitive Science. The remaining lectures will tackle - necessarily quite briefly - a broad range of topics from mainstream Cognitive Psychology, including Memory, Concepts & Categories, Problem Solving, Judgment, Reasoning, and Decision Making. Relevant experimental paradigms will be used throughout. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit will seek to enable students to identify and describe the main subject areas within Cognitive Psychology, with a particular emphasis on Memory, Decision Making, and Thinking. It also aims to provide the skills necessary to analyze and interpret the results of key experiments from the field of cognitive psychology, showing how they contribute to our current understanding of the workings of the human brain. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - describe the foundation concepts and questions that form the basis of cognitive psychology; - identify and describe the major subject areas in cognitive psychology, providing example experimental methods and results that illustrate key points; - demonstrate critical thinking during a written assignment by evaluating the strengths and weakness of the current theories of memory, decision making, and thinking. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - critique a theoretical model with reference to the empirical evidence; - discuss in writing potential additional evidence for or against a theoretical model; - appreciate the interplay between the different fields contributing to an area of study; - critically evaluate possible limitations of a given experiment and suggest design modifications; - critically evaluate ideas presented in journal papers and to discuss these ideas in writing. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Eysenck, M.W. & Keane, M.T. (2020). Cognitive psychology: A student's handbook, (8th ed.). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Supplementary Readings: - Baddeley, A., Eysenck, M.W., Anderson, M.C. (2020). Memory (3rd Edition). East Sussex: Psychology Press. - Frith, C. (2007). Making up the mind: How the brain creates our mental world. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. - Kahneman, D. (2013). Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. - Phelps, E.A., Berkman, E., Gazzaniga, M. (2018). Psychological Science (7th edition). W.W. Norton & Company. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Noellie Brockdorff |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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