COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Course Title: Cognitive Psychology

Course Code: CS-2107
Program: BS Computer Science
Proposed Semester: Three
Prerequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
To understand the contributions made to the understanding of human thought
processes by cognitive psychologists. To become familiar with the basic subjects of
cognitive study including perception, attention, consciousness, memory, imagery,
comprehension, categorization, problem-solving and language. To develop a view of
human cognition that is grounded in research and based on an integration of the
students faith with what psychologists have observed. To develop each students
skills in analytical and synthetic thinking, research methods.
COURSEOUTLINES:
Introduction comprises of the cognitive psychology and how cognition and
intelligence interrelates each other. In visual perception, understanding of
perception and how human vision process perform the perception of object, forms
and depth. Discuss the significance of attention and consciousness role in attention
process. Discuss the role of memory and memory processes in human cognition and
different types of memory. A complete understanding of knowledge and its different
types and understanding the use of knowledge in problem solving, reasoning and
decision making. Discuss the concept of problem solving, reasoning and decision
making. Make a clear understanding that how human motivation and emotion make
a significant influence on problem solving, reasoning and decision making. At the
end define the use of cognitive psychology in computational cognitive machines.
COURSEGOALS
GOAL-1 Introduction.
Objective-1 What is cognitive psychology. An overview of the history of cognitive
psychology
Objective-2 What is the emergence of cognitive psychology
Objective-3 What is the relation between Cognition and Intelligence
GOAL-2 Visual Perception.
Objective-1 Differentiate between sensation and perception.

Objective-2 Discuss sensory memory and its subtypes.

Objective-3 Discuss approaches for perception (bottom-up and top-down)
Objective-4 Discuss perception of object and forms, depth perception
Objective -5 Discuss deficits in perception
GOAL-3 Attention and Consciousness
Objective-1 What is attention, types of attention and role in day to day to
functioning with examples?
Objective-2 What is consciousness and its role in attention?
GOAL-4 Memory and Memory Processes.
Objective-1 What is Memory and why we need memory?
Objective-2Discuss Memory Processes (Encoding, Remembering, retrieval and
forgetting).
GOAL-5 Memory Types.
Objective-1 Discuss memory types and significance of each memory (STM, LTM
and WM)?
Objective-2Discuss short term memory, duration and capacity of short term
memory.
Objective-3 What is long term memory. Briefly explain their subtypes.
Objective-4 Discuss the differences between long term and short term memory.
Objective-5 What is working memory and discuss the role of working memory in
conscious process.
GOAL-6 Knowledge.
Objective-1 What is knowledge and what is the significance of knowledge in
human cognition.
Objective -2 Discuss the types of knowledge (Deductive and procedural
knowledge).
GOAL-7 Thinking, Problem solving and creativity.
Objective-1 What is thinking and problem solving, what is problem solving cycle.
Objective -2 Discuss knowledge and problem solving.
Objective -3 What is creativity.
GOAL-8 Decision making and Reasoning.
Objective-1 What is judgment and decision making.
Objective -2 What is reasoning. Knowledge and reasoning.
Objective -3 Discuss types of reasoning (Inductive and deductive)
GOAL-9 Motivation and Emotion.
Objective-1 What is motivation, types of motivation (Intrinsic and extrinsic)
Objective -2 What is Emotion. Types of emotion

Objective -3 Discuss the role of motivation and emotion in problem solving,

decision making and reasoning.
GOAL-10 Progress in Computational Cognitive Modeling and Machines.
Objective-1 What is artificial consciousness, artificial intelligence and the
intelligence distribution agent?
Objective-2 Discuss LIDA (Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent) and its relevance
to cognitive
psychology.
Objective-3 An analysis of the case study: cyber-child
REFERENCE BOOKS
[1].

Cognitive Psychology by Robert J. Sternberg, Karin Sternberg, Jeff Mio,

Publisher: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Edition 6, 2012.

[2].

Essential Cognitive Psychology by Alan J. Parkin, Publisher: Psychology press

Taylor & Francis Group, Classic Edition, 2014.

[3].

Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience by wikibooks contributors,

Publisher: wikibooks, 2014