Cognitive Psychology Lecture Notes

Monday, January 6th, 2025

Syllabus day

 Introduction
o Goes by Michael or professor
o Phd student
 Studying skills and aging
 Progression of dementia
 Color blind (green red)
o Has dog
 Named bloom
 More important than wife
o Hobbies?
 D and D
 Gaming
 Into music
 Overview
o Why memories are different
o How people achieve impressive features
o Why texting driving bad (attention)
o Cognitive psychology
 Attention
 Memory
 Knowledge
 Thought
o Why
 Understand how mind works
 Better everyday function
 Build foundation for other disciplines
 Syllabus
o Required book
 Book readings are not assigned and provide it to us,
material is tested from in class and not in the book
o My responsibilities
 Come to class
 Complete everything
o Grading policy
 75% of grade based on lecture and 25% based on lab and
are combined for final grade

,  Labs should not be too difficult
 Lecture section is 85% exams (5 exams), 15% assignments
 exams
o are 40-50 questions, some extra cred
o Multiple choice and closed book
o In person
 Assignments
o Written assignments help with exams
 Extra credit
 Participation in sona
o Up to 5 credits and each credit = 1% in final
grade
o Policy
 Participation/lateness
 If assignment is missed u have a week to turn in
 Missed exams
 Email professor
 Can make up any exam during exam 5
 Homework
 One week to catch up

Chapter 1

The science of the mind

Foundations of Cognitive Psychology

Learning objectives:

 Describe the broad scope of cognitive psychology as a field
 Understand where cognitive psychology find its origin
 Discuss different methods of data collection in cognitive psychology

The scope of cognitive psychology

 Firstfocused on the scientific study of knowledge
o How is knowledge acquired in the first place?
o How is knowledge retained for later use?
o How is knowledge used, when making decisions or solving
problems?
 Actions, thoughts, and feelings have a large dependency on cognition

The broad role of memory