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W1: Science of the Mind
Introduction to the Cognitive Revolution
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W1: Recognising Objects
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52
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W2: Attention
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22
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W3: Working Memory
How we learn new information and store it in our memories. It covers two of the most important models of memory: the modal model and the working memory model.
Key topics:
* Working memory
* Serial Position Effect
* Measuring working memory's capacity
* Components of working memory
* Entering long-term memory
* Organising and remembering
53
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W4: Encoding and Retrieval
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36
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W5: Remembering Complex Events
Looking at the circumstances in which material can both helped and hurt our memories. Although our memories are accurate most of the time, we show systematic errors. These errors can be simple mistakes about words that we have no heard or more complex personal events.
How we remember complex personal information and what types of memory errors we show.
* Memory errors
* False memories
* Forgetting
* Autobiographical memories
* Very long-term remembering
30
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W6: Concepts & Generic Knowledge
Categorisation of objects/events into concepts; a fundamental process to the work of the cognitive system.
* Definitions and prototypes
* Exemplars
* Categorisation via resemblance
* The knowledge network
* Propositional networks and PDP
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W7: Visual Knowledge
People's mental images or how they "think in pictures". Describe the techniques that we use to investigate people's images and the difference between imagining and perceiving. How we store and retrieve images from memory.
* Chronometric studies
* Imagery and perception
* Images and pictures
* Long-term visual memory
24
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W8: Judgement and Reasoning
The activity of thinking: how do people learn from experience and how do they make decisions? Cognitive shortcuts used to make judgements and more sophisticated reasoning. Errors in logical reasoning and factors that influence these errors.
* Availability and representativeness
* Covariation
* Two types of thinking
* Confirmation and disconfirmation
* Decision making
29
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W9: Problem Solving & Intelligence
How people use heuristics to solve problems. How training can help people solve problems, particularly using analogies. Approaches to problem solving. How we measure intelligence and whether these methods are reliable and valid. Biologiacl influences on intelligence.
* Problem solving
* Problems and creativity
* intelligence
* Differences in intelligence
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W10: Conscious and Unconscious Thought
The cognitive unconscious: the mental processes that occur "behind the scenes".
* Unconscious processes
* Consciousness and executive control
26
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