Introduction to Psychology Learning Outcomes

Subject specific

• Basic knowledge and understanding of sensory system and sensory coding
• Basic knowledge and understanding of neuroscience and psychophysics in the study of perception
• Basic knowledge and understanding of perceptual organization, action and categorization, learning and memory systems, declarative and procedural memory stores.
• The overview of animal models, experimental human studies, and neuroscience in memory research
• Basic knowledge and understanding of models of cognition, neural networks, decision theory and the executive systems
• The overview of symbolic representation and language from an experimental perspective
• Basic knowledge and understanding of emotions and cognitive representations and of the role of mood and transient emotional states
• Basic knowledge and understanding of the importance of natural science in understanding cognition

Methodological

• Ability to manipulate basic experimental softwares

Generic

• Basic knowledge in cognitive psychology and some related areas
• Ability to critically evaluate contemporary experimental literature
• Communication with experts in field
• Ability to work interdisciplinary

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