Cognition Behaviour and Performance
Cognition is concerned with the empirical study of mental processes including memory, perception, communication, problem solving and thinking and how these in turn influence human performance in the real world. You'll be provided with a critical understanding of research methods, theory and empirical findings for key topics in Cognitive Psychology and highlight the impact of these on human performance. As the module is shared, students will follow common as well as programme specific content in order to satisfy both programme level and professional statutory regulatory body curriculum requirements.
(This is a shared module followed by students on the MSc Ergonomics and the MSc Psychology Conversion course.)
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to critically discuss and integrate knowledge across several areas of cognitive psychology; demonstrate deep knowledge and understanding of empirical research in cognition and be able to position task performance in a psychological context.
Topics you'll cover may include:
- Attention
- Visual information processing
- Memory
- Thinking, Reasoning and Decision making
- Skilled Performance
- Human Error
- History, Development and Applications of Cognitive Psychology
- Speech perception
- Word comprehension
- Sentence comprehension.
