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Studies in Cognitive Psychology

Course Description: The course includes the knowledge, skills, and practical aspects related to cognitive psychology, such as: understanding the concept of cognitive psychology, its most important trends, the factors that led to its emergence, and its relationship to other branches of psychology. Understanding the theoretical foundations of knowledge representation and its types, its determinants, and models of cognitive representation of information.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisites: PSY 516
Objectives of the course :

The course aims to equip students with the knowledge, information, and skills necessary for an in-depth understanding of cognitive psychology and its modern theoretical trends.
Identifying modern trends in the study of cognitive development, such as Piaget, Vygotsky.
Familiarity with the role of mental processes such as attention, perception, memory, thinking, learning, and information processing, as well as the recognition of cognitive structure.
Understanding the Concept of Thinking About Thinking (Metacognition): Its Role in Learning and Cognitive Activity, Metacognitive Skills, Their Components, and Models.
Identifying cognitive styles, learning styles, cognitive strategies, and metacognition, and their use in the field of learning.
Familiarity with inferential thinking processes.

Course outputs :

Knowledge in the sense of cognitive psychology
Familiarity with the different directions of cognitive psychology
Familiarity with the information processing approach as one of the main trends in cognitive psychology, its origins, and the levels of information processing.
The ability to compare different trends in cognitive psychology.
The ability to understand cognitive patterns.
The ability to think deductively.
The ability to compare different directions in cognitive psychology
The ability to understand the intended meaning of information processing
Mastering the steps and procedures of deductive reasoning.

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  • Last updated: 2026-04-26

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