• An introduction to the history and key debates in Psychology and Neuropsychology exploring the main different cognitive functions and how they interact with one another.

• The key techniques and methods to study the mind.

• The main theories, models and concepts of attention, memory, language, perception and emotional processing

Unit 1: What is Cognitive Psychology: history and current core debates

• To learn about the key findings and assumptions of Cognitive Psychology.
• To familiarise learners with some of the central debates in Cognitive Psychology.
• To understand the relationship between the mind and the brain, as well as the role of genes and experience in shaping human behaviour.

Unit 2: How do we measure the mind? Introduction to Psychology’s main research methods

• To provide an understanding of the main methods in Cognitive Psychology.
• To learn about neuroimaging techniques and neuropsychological findings and how they contribute to our knowledge of the human brain.
• To develop a critical approach to methods and how each of them helps answer specific research questions

Unit 3: Introduction to the psychology of human language

• To learn the main theories and models related to human language acquisition and to critically evaluate the extent to which empirical studies support different theoretical claims
• To understand the main models accounting for the development of different components of language.
• To develop a critical approach to theories highlighting the crucial role of learning context during language acquisition (shared attentional orienting).

Unit 4: Introduction to memory, perception and cross-modal interactions

• To learn the main ideas and models of working memory and its role in relation with short- and long-term memory.
• To understand how language and memory interact with perception to facilitate aspects of our daily life.
• To develop a critical approach to the modular understanding of the mind and appreciate how sensory modalities greatly influence each other.

Unit 5: Introduction to attention, consciousness and free will

• To learn the psychological concept of attention and how it shapes thinking.
• To understand the contribution of neuropsychology to our understanding of human attention.
• To develop a critical approach to literature on the relationship between attention and consciousness.

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