Introduction to psychology/Psy102/Lectures/Cognitive processes
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Outline
[edit | edit source]- Studying cognition
- Cognitive psychology and cognitive science
- Discovering the processes of mind
- Mental processes and mental resources
- Language use
- Language production
- Language understanding
- Language and evolution
- Language, thought, and culture
- Visual cognition
- Using visual representations
- Combining verbal and visual representations
- Problem solving and reasoning
- Problem solving
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Judgment and decision making
- Heuristics and judgment
- The psychology of decision making
Objectives
[edit | edit source]- Difference between serial and parallel processes
- Automatic and controlled processes
- Grice’s maxims for language production
- Forms of ambiguity in language comprehension
- Inference in the cognitive processing of language
- Dual-coding – combining verbal and visual representations
- “Problem space,” and its relationship to problem solving
- Problem-solving skills and techniques to improve them
- Deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning
- Heuristics in judgments and decision making
- Framing and decision making
See also
[edit | edit source]- Psychology 102/Tutorials/Cognitive processes and intelligence
- Cognition
- Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Wikibooks)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Cognition and language (Pearson resources)