Preamble: The present coursewill help the students to learn the many different ways of conceptualizing the concepts of cognitive psychology. Since there is no universal approach to study all “Cognitionâ€, 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. The cognitive revolution: history, philosophical issues and early information processing models; Attention: review of different approaches, automaticity and other issues; Learning: theories and basic issue related to cognition; Memory: explicit and implicit, episodic and semantic and non-verbal; Language: basic issues related to cognition; Thinking and Reasoning; Judgment and Decision making.
