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Level 6
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20 Credits
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0.1667 EFTS
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Course duration: 16 weeks
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Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
This online course will introduce you to the study of knowing. This includes how we acquire information from our environment, store it in memory, and use it to communicate, solve problems, and make decisions.
The study of cognition will also give you links to topics in our other psychology courses, particularly:
- cognitive views of learning
- cognitive aspects of social psychology
- clinical applications that emphasise faulty thinking processes.
The learning focuses on experiments in cognition, encouraging you to think about how cognitive models and theories can be tested and improved.
What you will learn
When you successfully complete this course you will be familiar with:
- introducing cognitive psychology
- perception and attention
- Remembering and Forgetting
- long-term memory
- general knowledge
- mental imagery
- drawing conclusions and solving problems
- language comprehension and production
- reasoning and decision making.
Assessment
100% internal assessment
Textbooks
There is a textbook required for this course. Visit our textbook page for more information.
Computer and internet requirements
This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.
For online learning you need:
- Access to a laptop or desktop computer
- Reliable broadband internet and a data plan
Find out more about online learning
If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.