Fall 2002:
Cognitive Psychology (PSY 325)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- Syllabus (download .pdf file)
- Text:
Reed, Stephen K. (2000). Cognition: Theory and Applications
(Fifth Edition).
- Course Description:
Neisser (1967) described cognitive psychology as the study of
the processes by which sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated,
stored, recovered, and used. Cognitive Psychology includes the study
of pattern recognition, attention, memory, representation of knowledge,
language, problem-solving, creativity, and decision-making.
- Goals for the Course:
- Knowledge - You should be able to describe theories
and experiments that address all the topics above.
- Skills
- You should be able to read and understand
a summarized experiment. By the end of the course, you should be
able to determine the reason the experimenter conducted the experiment,
the experimenter’s hypothesis, the methods used, the results, and the
extent to which the hypothesis was supported by the data.
- You should be able to use the data to
support or refute a claim about the way in which cognitive processes
work.
- Laboratory (Online): CogLab.
This online laboratory allows you to participate in cognitive
psychology experiments
- CogLab #1 = Sternberg Search (DUE 9/20/02)
- CogLab #2 = Mental Rotation (DUE 10/18/02)
- CogLab #3 = Lexical Decision AND Risky Decisions
(DUE 11/20/02)
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Teaching Competencies and Interests:
Core Courses
- Introduction to Psychology
- Research Methods
- Statistics
- Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Physiological Psychology
Advanced Courses and Seminars
- Cognitive Psychology Lab
- Comparative Cognition
- Cognitive Development
- Animal Learning
- Marine Mammal Cognition and Bioacoustics
- Animal Language Research
- The Development of Numerical Concepts in Children
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