Department of Counselling and Psychology Course Outline
Course Title Advanced Cognitive Psychology
Course Code PSY310
Number of Credits 3
Duration of Weeks 15
Contact Hours Per Week 3 hours
Pre-requisite Course(s)
PSY100 Introductory Psychology
PSY 205 Cognitive Psychology
Course Aims This course aims at providing students with an in-depth understanding of specific topics in cognitive psychology by reviewing recent articles in the field. Some recent developments and daily life issues in cognitive psychology will be critically discussed in this course. Topics include: face recognition, attention, memory, decision making and language. This course also aims at demonstrating how a cognitive psychology research should be conducted. Research proposal writing and journal critique writing will be taught in the course.
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