Cognition: How the Mind Works
PSY 11
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Description
This course focuses on the impressive human cognitive capacity, asking what a mind is and how we can find out. We will cover great debates, methods, and foundational topics within Cognitive Science and Cognitive Psychology, spanning questions like how we think, decide, remember, talk, perceive, and make meaning. Students in this course will gain experience (a) reading and evaluating classic texts, cutting-edge empirical research, and popular science, and (b) learning analytic skills they can apply to understanding basic cognitive phenomena, and how they can be measured, described, or predicted at different levels of representation. This is a lecture course intended as a foundational course for Psychology concentrators but also intentionally accessible for the Cognitive Science-curious in related areas like linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neuroscience, education, and anthropology.
Course Notes
This course counts toward foundational requirements for Psychology and should be taken before courses at the 1000 level or higher.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
NOTE: This course requires additional sections; you will be prompted to choose secondary components during the Add to Cart process
