APSY8919 · Education
Lynch School of Education & Human Development
For Ph.D. students in Applied Developmental Psychology, open to ADEP MA students and other doctoral students with instructor's permission.. This course will explore the basic processes underlying human cognition and the role of these processes in acquiring knowledge in key domains. Our main goal is to provide our students with a foundational framework in cognitive psychology that can be applied to better understand human behavior and learning. The first part of the course will focus on perception, attention, memory, categorization, and reasoning. The second part of the course will focus on learning in key domains of cognition, such as mathematics, science, and language.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.7 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.6 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.7 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.4 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
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Across time
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Spring 2025
1 sectionSpring 2023
1 section