An introductory course to Cognitive Psychology. It will introduce students to fundamental mental processes, such as
- Perception (sensory functions, visual and auditory perception),
- Attention (selective attention, automatic and controlled attention, etc.),
- Memory (Information processing theory, levels of processing, working memory, theories of remembering and forgetting, etc.),
- Thought (representation of knowledge, problem solving, decision making, executive functions, etc.) and
- Language (structure and functions of language, relation language-thought).
More specifically, the methodologies by which these processes are investigated, as well as the most important theoretical frameworks and research results will be discussed.