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Micro-credential certification in Cognitive Psychology PSY 2114 (BPSY)
Overview:
Awarding Body:
This programme is designed, delivered, assessed and awarded by SEGi University through the SEGiUniDigital Platform.
Discipline:
Psychology
Entry Requirements:
Entry Requirements - No
Age Experience - 23 Years Above
Language Proficiency - Yes
Numeracy Proficiency - No
Pre-requisites - No
Programme Structure:
Coursework - 60%
Exam - 40%
Contents:
- Cognitive Psychology : An Introduction
- Memory and cognition defined
- An introductory history of cognitive psychology
- Cognitive psychology and information processing
- The assumptions of cognitive psychology
- The Cognitive Science Approach
- Measuring Information processes
- The Information-Processing Approach
- The Modern Cognitive Approach: Cognitive Science
- Neurocognition: The brain and cognition together
- Neural Net Models: Connectionism
- Perception and Pattern Recognition
- Visual perception
- Pattern recognition: written language
- Object recognition and Agnosia
- Auditory perception
- Attention
- Basic input attentional processes
- Controlled, voluntary attention
- Attention as a mental resource
- Short-Term Working Memory
- Short-term memory
- Short-term memory retrieval
- Working memory
- Learning and Remembering
- Storing information in episodic memory
- Retrieving episodic information
- Amnesia and implicit memory
- Knowing
- Semantic memory
- Schemata and Scripts
- Context, connectionism, and the brain
- Using Knowledge in the Real World
- Situation Models and Embodied Cognition
- Metamemory
- False memories, Eyewitness Memory and "Forgotten Memories"
- Autobiographical Memories
- "Language
- Defining language
- Phonology: The sounds of language
- Syntax: the ordering of words and phrases
- Lexical and Semantic Factors: the meaning in language
- Brain and language
- Comprehension: Written and Spoken Language
- Reading
- Reference, Situation Models, and events
- Conversation and gesture
- Problem Solving
- Gestalt Psychology and problem solving
- Basics of problem solving
- Improving your problem solving
- "Decisions and Judgments
- Decisions about physical differences
- Decisions about symbolic differences
- Decisions about geographic distances
- Reasoning
- Syllogisms
- Conditional reasoning: If P then Q
- Hypothesis testing
- Limitations in reasoning
Assessments:
Coursework - 60%
Exam - 40%
Credit Transfer:
Upon successful completion of this Micro-credential certification in Cognitive Psychology (BPSY), students will be able to transfer grades and credits into the following programme(s):
- Bachelor of Psychology
Continuing Education:
Upon successful completion of this Bachelor of Psychology programme and meeting the necessary entry requirements, students will be able to progress into the following programme(s):
- Master of Psychology