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Cognitive Psychology

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PSYCH XL 120A

This course presents how people acquire, represent, and use verbal and nonverbal information.

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What you can learn.

Evaluate how humans think, act, decide, and perceive everyday
Identify when metacognition is accurate and when it is biased
Compare and contrast different research designs in cognitive psychology

About This Course

This course presents a survey of cognitive psychology--how people acquire, represent, transform, and use verbal and nonverbal information. Topics include perception, attention, imagery, memory, representation of knowledge, language, action, decision-making and thinking. Transferable for UC credit. 
Prerequisites
XL 10 Introductory Psychology, XL 100A Psychological Statistics, junior standing, or consent of instructor.