Cognitive Psychology

About this course

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with how the mind processes information. It asks how we perceive, attend to, learn, remember, and think about the world, and how those processes sometimes go wrong in ways that produce distortions, errors, and disorders. Cognitive psychology has transformed our understanding of the mind over the past half-century, providing accounts of memory, attention, language, reasoning, and decision-making that have implications for everything from education and clinical practice to human factors in engineering and the design of intelligent systems. At the University of East Anglia, this three-year full-time programme gives you a thorough grounding in both the core discipline of psychology and the specific tradition of cognitive science. You will study the major theoretical frameworks and experimental methods of cognitive psychology, from c

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