PSYC 364

COGNITION (3 credits)

This is an introductory course to cognitive psychology – perhaps one of the most interesting courses you’ll take in your undergrad.

If Prof. Tobin is teaching this course, I highly recommend taking it with her.

Here is the Course Outline

Slides: 

• Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, 

This is the textbook used for this course (by Matlin). Note, that other sections used different textbooks. One of them by Goldstein and another by Reed.

Exams:

•  Exams consist of multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and short/long answers. (Prof. Tobin will always give you a choice for short-answer questions)
  • For Prof. Tobin’s short-answer question, be sure to cite studies that are relevant to the question at hand. You don’t need to remember that exact name of the researcher, but you should be able to say “there was -such-and-such study with demonstrated that children exposed to XYZ were more likely to do YZX ….”

Some cool links related to material covered in the course:

• Change Blindness
• Blindsight
• Stroop Effect
• A great TED talk by Elizabeth Loftus on false memories
• The Turing Test (Ted-Ed) “Can a computer pass for a human?”
• The Brain Dictionary video and site with the model
• Cool video on how we make irrational decisions