Introduction to psychology/Psy102/Lectures/Cognitive processes

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Outline

 * 1) Studying cognition
 * 2) Cognitive psychology and cognitive science
 * 3) Discovering the processes of mind
 * 4) Mental processes and mental resources
 * 5) Language use
 * 6) Language production
 * 7) Language understanding
 * 8) Language and evolution
 * 9) Language, thought, and culture
 * 10) Visual cognition
 * 11) Using visual representations
 * 12) Combining verbal and visual representations
 * 13) Problem solving and reasoning
 * 14) Problem solving
 * 15) Deductive reasoning
 * 16) Inductive reasoning
 * 17) Judgment and decision making
 * 18) Heuristics and judgment
 * 19) The psychology of decision making

Objectives

 * 1) Difference between serial and parallel processes
 * 2) Automatic and controlled processes
 * 3) Grice’s maxims for language production
 * 4) Forms of ambiguity in language comprehension
 * 5) Inference in the cognitive processing of language
 * 6) Dual-coding – combining verbal and visual representations
 * 7) “Problem space,” and its relationship to problem solving
 * 8) Problem-solving skills and techniques to improve them
 * 9) Deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning
 * 10) Heuristics in judgments and decision making
 * 11) Framing and decision making