Syllabus

Modules:
I. The cognitive revolution: history, philosophical issues and early information processing models
II. Attention: review of different approaches, automaticity and other issues
III. Learning: theories and basic issue related to cognition
IV. Memory: explicit and implicit, episodic and semantic and non-verbal
V. Language: basic issues related to cognition
VI. Thinking and Reasoning Judgment and Decision making.

The present course will help the students to learn the different ways of conceptualizing the concepts of cognitive psychology and cognition.

Since there is no universal approach to study all “Cognition”, the present course will utilize a number of older and newer approaches for studying different cognition.
I believe that this will provide tools that are needed to think critically about problems relating cognition and human behavior.

Kellogg, T., Cognitive Psychology, London: Sage, 1997

Galotti, M., Cognitive Psychology: In and Out of the Laboratory, London, Sage, 2013

Weisberg, R., & Reeves, L, Cognition: From Memory to Creativity, New York, Wiley, 2013

Paul Thagard, Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, MIT Press (MA)