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This course examines different theoretical perspectives on learning and cognitive functions, and their applications in improving learning, memory, and school teaching. The course also explores the shaping effects on biological evolution on learning and cognition, and mechanisms and applications of other cognitive activities, such as perception, attention, memory, and reasoning.
This book is designed as a modular structure to present the content of learning and memory. There are four modules altogether, the introductory module, the learning module, the memory module, and the integrative topics module. The modular structure makes it very flexible in terms of the sequence of study materials- one can choose to study the learning module only, or the memory module only, or first learning module then memory module, or first memory module then learning module. This book features the neuroscience focus, as well as the clinical perspective which shows the impact of the study of learning and memory on treatment of clinical disorders.
This book is designed for undergraduate students in the field of cognitive psychology. The book is divided into three parts: Information-Processing Stages, Representation and Organization of Knowledge, and Complex Cognitive Skills. Part 1 covers pattern recognition, attention, short-term working memory, and long-term memory, and describes what occurs during the different information-processing stages and how the stages interact. Part 2 covers memory codes, visual images, categorization, and semantic organization, and discusses qualitatively different memory codes and the organization of knowledge in long-term memory. Part 3 covers cognitive skills such as language, comprehension and memory for text, problem solving, expertise and creativity, and decision making.
This book examines human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, providing the conceptual tools needed to study evolutionary psychology and apply them to empirical research on the human mind. The book consists of five parts. Part One introduces the foundations of evolutionary psychology. Part Two concerns human adaptations to the problems of survival. Part Three focuses on challenges of sex and mating and examines the large empirical foundation that evolutionary psychology has established in this domain. Part Four focuses on challenges of parenting and kinship. Part Five concerns problems of group living.
