Course Contents

1. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology a) Definition of Cognitive Psychology b) Origin of Cognitive Psychology c) The emergence of Modern Cognitive Perspective 2. Current Issues in Cognitive Psychology a) Cognitive Neuroscience b) Artificial Intelligence c) The Parallel Distributed Processing Approach 3. Visual and Auditory Recognition a) Background in Visual Object Recognition b) Top down Processing and visual object Recognition c) Bottom up processing and visual object recognition d) Face Perception e) Speech Perception 4. Attention and Consciousness a) Attention b) Kinds of attention c) Neuroscience research on attention d) Theories of attention e) Cognitive Psychology and Consciousness f) Modern theories of Consciousness 5. Memory Strategies and Meta-cognition a) Memory strategies b) Meta-cognition 6. Introduction to Language and Language comprehension a) Nature of Language b) Basic Reading Process c) Understanding Discourse 7. Language Production and Bilingualism a) Speaking b) Writing c) Bilingualism and School – Language Acquisition

Course Synopsis

Objectives • To give students a rich harvest of knowledge about perception, memory, neurocognition, thinking and information processing. • To present recent important findings in cognition this has helped in the establishment of a connection between the thinking mind and its corresponding neuro-physiological activities. • To give a comprehensive view of cognitive psychology so that the students can appreciate all of its multifarious components.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the completion of the course the student will have knowledge of: 1. The historical development of cognitive psychology 2. The relevance of higher cognitive processes for understanding people's behavior in selected areas such as risk assessment, environmental behavior, clinical dysfunction or therapeutic intervention 3. Methodologies used in the study of cognition